Head of Israeli Secret Service: Impostor

Yaakov Peri, former head of the Shin Beth (the Israeli Secret Service)  did not serve in the Army and lied about it, according to the TV show “Uvda” aired Wednesday night, hours after the ex-Shin Bet chief resigned from the Knesset.


There is no evidence of Peri serving in the IDF, and that the listed reason for his exemption is that he is “permanently unfit.”


On the Knesset website, Peri, 74, is listed as having served as a paratrooper, and has talked about his IDF service in interviews and his biography.

Now, what does this information mean? Peri went through life (and reached the top) on the basis of a lie. I cannot believe that this was unknown to his bosses and environment. He must have a real health problem and tried to hide it from the public. I try to understand him, yet he was a definite security risk for the organization he served, and for the country. We are lucky that our enemies are so incompetent.