Aharon Yariv

Aharon Yariv
Date of birth	20 December 1920
Place of birth	Moscow, Soviet Union
Year of aliyah	1935
Date of death	7 May 1994(1994-05-07) (aged 73)
Knessets	8th
Party	Alignment
Ministerial posts	Minister of Transportation Minister of Information

Aharon "Aharale" Rabinovich Yariv (Hebrew: אהרן רבינוביץ' יריב‎, 20 December 1920 – 7 May 1994) was an Israeli politician and soldier.

Born in Moscow in the Soviet Union. When he was 15 he immigrated to Israel and studied at the Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School. Yariv began his military service in the Haganah and later the British Army. He then joined the IDF, first as a field officer, and later as the Israeli military attaché to Washington. From 1964 to 1972, Yariv was the head of Aman, the IDF's military intelligence. After the Munich Massacre in 1972, he served as Prime Minister Golda Meir's Advisor on Counterterrorism, where he directed Operation Wrath of God. During the October War of 1973 he also led the Israeli military delegation at the Kilometer 101 talks with Egypt's General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy which endeavoured to bring about a military disengagement treaty. After leaving the army, he joined the Alignment. He was elected to the Knesset in the 1973 elections, and was appointed Transportation Minister, and then Information Minister. He resigned from the latter post in 1975, and then from the Knesset shortly before the 1977 elections. Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister at the time of his death, gave the eulogy at his funeral in 1994.

In March 1979 he reported that in the previous fourteen years 630 Israelis had been killed in terrorist incidents. He argued that the PLO had not disrupted normal life, stopped immigration or stopped tourism, adding that Israel lost about the same number of people each year in traffic accidents.

Yariv was played by actor Amos Lavi in Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich.

References

• Oren, Michael B. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making if the Modern Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-515174-9, 76 p.
• Obituary in The New York Times
• Stein, Kenneth W. Heroic Diplomacy. New York: Routledge, 1999. ISBN 0-415-92155-4, p97-116

External links

• Aharon Yariv Knesset website
• Eulogies from the Jafee Center for Strategic Studies