Fifth Mossad Director; served between 1974 - 1982.

Yitzhak (Haka) Hofi was born in Israel in 1927. He joined the Palmach in 1944. In the IDF, he served in the paratrooper unit and participated in the Reprisal Operations and in the 1956 Sinai (Kadesh) Campaign. Hofi served as commander of the officer training school, the paratrooper brigade, head of the operations department in the operations division, and head of the training department. During the Yom Kippur war, he served as General of the Northern Command, and was recognized for leading the battles against Syria's military. After the war, he was appointed head of the operations division, and after CGS David Elazar resigned, Hofi was appointed acting CGS.

In July 1974, he was appointed Mossad Director. Hofi established the analysis division on the recommendation of the Agrant committee, which demanded a pluralistic approach to intelligence analysis, so as not to continue relying on the assessment of just the IDI (military intelligence), as had been the case until then.

As Mossad Director, Hofi was personally involved in the initiating the first covert political negotiations between Israel and Egypt, which eventually led to the signing of a peace treaty between the two countries. During Hofi's term, a civil war broke out in Lebanon, and the Mossad formed covert ties with various elements there, mainly Christians. In July 1976, the Mossad, through its people and contacts in Africa and Europe, provided information and infrastructure for the operation to rescue the Air France passengers whose plane had been hijacked en route to France and forced to land in Uganda.

Efforts began during Hofi's era to secretly bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The operation began in 1979 and continued until 1990. A prominent milestone in Hofi's term was the Israeli air force's bombing of the atomic reactor in Iraq in June 1981, an operation based, among other things, on information that the Mossad had provided for several years. Under Hofi's command, the Mossad continued to wage war on Palestinian terror abroad, and succeeded in disrupting many lethal plots.

After retiring, Hofi served as CEO of the Israel Electric Corporation, chairman of the board of directors of Tadiran, and member of the board of directors of Bank Leumi. He joined various associations and organizations, including the Council for a Beautiful Israel, and was active in the Israel Intelligence Heritage Center.

Yitzhak Hofi died in September 2014 at the age of 87.

ראשי המוסד לאורך השנים

Reuven Shiloah

Isser Harel

Meir Amit

Zvi Zamir

Yitzhak (Haka) Hofi

Nahum Admoni

Shabtai Shavit

Danny Yatom

Efraim Halevi

Meir Dagan

Tamir Pardo

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