Uzi Eilam

Uzi Eilam is a retired IDF brigadier general and former director of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.[1] Closely involved in many of the most crucial decision-making events in the State of Israel's history, he had commanded various Israeli military units during his service to IDF.In 1976 he was appointed by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to serve for 10 years as Director General of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission.[citation needed] Coming from "the heart of Israel's secret security mechanisms", he believes that Benjamin Netanyahu is using the threat of atomic Iran as a means of reaching "his own political aims".He said: "Netanyahu and other politicians have struck terrible, unnecessary fear into the hearts of the Israeli public, and thankfully the flames fanned over the issue seemed to have died down for now."
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