Born in 1945, he headed Israel's domestic intelligence service, Shin Bet, from 1995 to 2000. In 2003, he launched the peace initiative ‘The People's Voice’ with Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh. In 2006, he was elected to the Knesset for the Labour Party. In 2021, he published the book Friendly Fire - How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future.
