Shlomo Gazit

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Major General Shlomo Gazit, previously Weinstein, born to a family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Israel was an officer in the Israel Defense Forces and head of Aman from 1974 to 1978. He served as the head of assessment in IDF intelligence before the Six Day War, but then took leave to receive a Masters degree in history. Gazit's studies were interrupted in the summer of 1967, when he was appointed by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to be in charge of a committee tasked with running the political, security, and later economic affairs in the newly captured territories. This group would be renamed "The Unit for the Coordination of Operations in the Territories". After seven years, Gazit was promoted to head of Aman, which he held for four years.

(He later enetered politics and served as mayor of Tel Aviv. He is considered a pragmatic dove regarding the Israeli-Arab conflict.) correction: the mayor of Tel Aviv was general shlomo LAHAT

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The Middle East Military Balance, 1990-91, Westview Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8133-1413-5
The Middle East Military Balance 1992-1993, Westview Press, 1994. ISBN 0-8133-2218-9
The Middle East Military Balance 1993-1994, Westview Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8133-2658-3
The Palestinian refugee problem, Tel Aviv University, 1995. ISBN 965-459-016-6
The Carrot and the Stick: Israel's Policy in Judaea and Samaria, 1967-68 , B'nai B'rith Book Service, 1995. ISBN 0-910250-29-4
Trapped Fools; Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories, Frank Cass, 2003. ISBN 0-7146-8390-6
The Arab-Israeli Wars : War and Peace in the Middle East, Vintage, 2005. ISBN 1-4000-7963-2