Meir Amit - The Man and the Institution By Amnon Jakont 2012/ Israeli Wars Books-hebrew/israeli Literature

The office desk, the Kirya in Tel Aviv, it was assumed model of a secret. The year was 1962. Egyptian president - Gamal Abdel Nasser - again threatened to "wipe the Zionist state." The Israeli intelligence were expected to follow the movements of the Egyptian army, but had no means to do so. The system was in solution. Stayed just one problem: money. Intelligence Chief Meir Amit, was asked to approve the budget required for the production of equipment - two million dollars, half of the annual budget of the entire Corps. Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin, was outraged: "two million dollars I buy you a tank and an imaginary plan familiar to me ...?" Meir Amit, as usual, did not give ... This is the story of those who conceived and implemented the IDF and the Mossad the modern concept of intelligence, based on the operational and political initiative and advanced technology, and who also founded the high-tech industry and contributed greatly to the development.