PM Netanyahu Appoints Senior ISA Official as Next NSC Head
Meir Ben Shabat served the past three years as the head of the ISA southern region
IsraelDefense
| 13/08/2017
Meir Ben Shabat (Photo Credit: Prime Minister's Office)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting that he had decided to appoint Meir Ben Shabat as the head of the National Security Council (NSC).
Ben Shabat served for the past three years as head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA) southern region, equivalent in rank to a major general.
Born in 1966, married, and father of four, Ben Shabat holds a BA in Political Science from Bar-Ilan University (cum laude), and graduated the program for directors and senior officers of corporations at Tel Aviv University, and graduated of a wide range of courses in intelligence and senior management.
Ben Shabat joined the ISA in January 1989, immediately after completing his mandatory service in the IDF (1984-1988 in the Givati Brigade), beginning his career as a regular worker in the service's southern region. He acquired expertise in Hamas in the Gaza Strip and participated in most of the operations against it in the past two decades, playing an active part in Operation Cast Lead.
Throughout his years in the organization, he performed a wide range of management duties in the operational and headquarters divisions. Among other things, he headed two brigades and served as head of three divisions: the Cyber Division, the National Anti-Terror Espionage, Research, and Policy branch, and the Southern Region.
He was responsible for the management of hundreds of employees and managers in various capacities and different areas of expertise. He conducted dozens of intelligence and preventive operations, established extensive external relations, established new units, led structural changes, conducted research and strategic planning, and dealt with shaping policy on a long list of issues.
[Source: Arutz Sheva]
Meir Ben Shabat served the past three years as the head of the ISA southern region
Meir Ben Shabat (Photo Credit: Prime Minister's Office)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting that he had decided to appoint Meir Ben Shabat as the head of the National Security Council (NSC).
Ben Shabat served for the past three years as head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA) southern region, equivalent in rank to a major general.
Born in 1966, married, and father of four, Ben Shabat holds a BA in Political Science from Bar-Ilan University (cum laude), and graduated the program for directors and senior officers of corporations at Tel Aviv University, and graduated of a wide range of courses in intelligence and senior management.
Ben Shabat joined the ISA in January 1989, immediately after completing his mandatory service in the IDF (1984-1988 in the Givati Brigade), beginning his career as a regular worker in the service's southern region. He acquired expertise in Hamas in the Gaza Strip and participated in most of the operations against it in the past two decades, playing an active part in Operation Cast Lead.
Throughout his years in the organization, he performed a wide range of management duties in the operational and headquarters divisions. Among other things, he headed two brigades and served as head of three divisions: the Cyber Division, the National Anti-Terror Espionage, Research, and Policy branch, and the Southern Region.
He was responsible for the management of hundreds of employees and managers in various capacities and different areas of expertise. He conducted dozens of intelligence and preventive operations, established extensive external relations, established new units, led structural changes, conducted research and strategic planning, and dealt with shaping policy on a long list of issues.
[Source: Arutz Sheva]
