Israel Hasson

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Israel Hasson (Hebrew: ישראל חסון) (born: 1956) is an Israeli politician and Knesset member, former Deputy Director of the Shabak. He is number three in Yisrael Beytenu's list.

Hasson was born in Syria, and emigrated to Israel at the age of seven. He has served in the Shabak for twenty-three years, and is considered a celebrated agents recruiter and operations leader. He was involved in the negotiations behind the Wye River, Taba, and Hevron agreements, as well as Ehud Barak's negotiations in Camp David. He has also been Israel's envoy to Arab countries on numerous occasions. During his last position in the Shabak, he was nominated as its Deputy Director, under Ami Ayalon.

In 2000, after Avi Dichter was preferred over him as Shabak Director, Hasson resigned from the organization and entered business. He founded the Hasson Energy company which delivers fuel to factories and gas stations in Israel's north, and also traded with the Palestinian National Authority. He was voted to the seventeenth Knesset in the legislative election of 2006.

In 2006 Israel Hasson proposed a Knesset bill which require the internet websites to identify and tag every talkbacker who clicks on the talkback button. "I'm not seeking censorship," said MK Hasson, "I only want people to know they must take responsibility for the words they write – just as they are responsible for what they say before a live audience."^[1]