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David Barnea - Tom Griffin on intelligence history

David Barnea in 2023 (US Embassy Jerusalem, CC2.0, via Wikimedia Commons).

David Barnea, nicknamed ‘Dedi’, has been the director of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence agency since 2021.

Early life

David Barnea was born in 1965. He enlisted in the IDF in 1983 and served in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit. He subsequently earned a Bachelor’s degree from the New York Institute of Technology and an MBA from Pace University. He then worked at an investment bank in Israel as a business manager.

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Update: 2024-12-04