Career
In 2006,Palti began working at the Mossad intelligence agency at the request of then-director,Meir Dagan,who appointed him head of the Counter Terrorism division within the organization's intelligence branch. In 2010,he was appointed head of the Mossad's strategic research division. In 2011,he was appointed by then-director Tamir Pardo as head of the intelligence directorate. [5]
Palti's tenure as head of the Mossad's intelligence directorate was characterized by Israel and its intelligence community facing a wave of threats and challenges including revolutions across the Arab world,the Syrian Civil War,and the Iranian nuclear program. [6] [7]
In 2016,Palti finished his tenure and went on to be a senior research fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center. In February 2017,a professional committee,chaired by Ministry of Defense Director General,Gen. (res.) Udi Adam,recommended that Palti be selected to serve as head of the ministry's Political-Military Bureau. Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman approved the recommendation. [8]
Palti has BA and Executive MA in Middle-Eastern studies from Tel Aviv University,with honorary distinction. [9] He is a graduate of the National Defense University's Advanced Management program,and was a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy [10] in Washington,DC. Palti was also a Reccanati-Kaplan senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. [11]
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