David Barnea

David "Dedi" Barnea is the Deputy Head of the Mossad, and the designated head of the Mossad.

Biography

Barnea studied at the Military Boarding School for Command in Tel Aviv [1] and enlisted in the IDF in 1983. He did his military service in the General Staff Reconnaissance Regiment (Sayeret Matkal). After studying in the United States, he served as business manager at an investment bank in Israel [2]

In 1996 he joined the Mossad, took a course in collection officers and served in the Tzomet Division, Commanding operational units in Israel and abroad. For two and a half years he served as deputy head of the Keshet Division. In 2013, he was appointed head of the Tzomet Division [3], where four awards on Israel national security were presented to the division headed by him. In 2019, he was appointed deputy head of the Mossad. In 2021, it was decided that he would be appointed head of the Mossad, a position he is expected to enter in June of this year.

Barnea holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of New York. Married and father of four.