Ami Ayalon
Ami Ayalon (Hebrew עמי איילון; * June 27, 1945 in Tiberias, Palestine) is an Israeli politician, peace activist and member of the Knesset for the Labor Party Avodah. On 12 June 2007 he was defeated in a runoff election for the presidency Ehud Barak of the Israeli Labor Party. Ayalon was admiral and commander of the Israeli Navy, and from February 1996 to May 2000 head of Israel's domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet ( שב ).
Life and work
Aijalon, descendant of a Hungarian Zionist pioneer family, was born in 1945 near Tiberias. 1963 Aijalon joined as a volunteer in the Israeli Navy, where he started an 13 almost 32 -year career as a member of the elite unit Schajetet. In 1969, his unit was decorated together with Sajeret Matkal as part of Operation Butmus, the attack on the fortified so-called "Green Island" in Egypt, with the highest military award. He was later promoted several times and in 1979 finally appointed commander of Schajetet 13. In this role, he led various military operations, for which services he was awarded another medal.
Ayalon graduated in 1980 a degree in Social Sciences at Bar- Ilan University with a Bachelor of Arts, and in 1992 a management degree from Harvard University with a Master of Public Administration. He was elevated to the rank of Admiral and Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy in 1992, a post which he held until his retirement in 1996. After the murder of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Ayalon took over from 1996 to 2002 the top post of the Israeli domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet.
On 25 June 2003 Ayalon launched together with the Palestinian professor of Al -Quds University, East Jerusalem, Sari Nusseibeh, the peace initiative "The voice of the people ". The objective of this movement is to mobilize the public for the so-called two -state solution with the Palestinians, without the right to return for Palestinian refugees, but with a state of their own in Gaza and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
2006 Ayalon was elected as a member of the Avodah in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. After 14 months of experience deputies he ran in June 2007 to the Chair of the Israeli Labor Party, but lost on 12 June 2007 in a runoff election against Ehud Barak. In September of the same year he was appointed minister without portfolio.
Documentary
Ayalon is one of the interviewees in the Israeli documentary director Dror Moreh first kill. The film from the year 2012 is engaged in the work of the Shin Bet and shows not only documentation, interviews with the six surviving leaders of the 2012 Gedheimdienstes. The film was released in early 2013 in the Israeli cinema and was broadcast in March 2013, both of the Franco-German TV channel Arte as well as of the ARD.