{"id":20102,"date":"2010-06-26T02:37:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T00:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20102"},"modified":"2023-04-06T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:25:01","slug":"mossad-chief-to-leave-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/26\/mossad-chief-to-leave-post\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mossad Chief to leave post&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">By JPOST.COM STAFF<\/span><br \/>\n06\/26\/2010 00:21<\/p>\n<h3>Report claims Meir Dagan&#8217;s request to keep his job was rejected.<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20103\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sadmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sadmos.jpg 311w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/sadmos-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mossad Chief Meir Dagan is to leave his post in three months<\/strong>, Channel 2 news reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Dagan, who has been head of the Mossad for the last eight years, requested to work another year in the role, but was refused.<\/p>\n<p>Dagan was appointed to the position in 2002 by former prime minister Ariel Sharon.<\/p>\n<p>Since then his appointment has been extended twice and is due to expire at the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The decision not to renew Dagan&#8217;s appointment is likely related to the fallout from the recent attempt to assassinate\u00a0Hamas commander Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A number of states who are normally friendly towards Israel were offended by the use of their passports in the killing. Britain has stopped issuing passports in Tel-Aviv and diplomats were expelled from Britain, Ireland and Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel\/Article.aspx?id=179551\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel\/Mossad-Chief-to-leave-post<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JPOST.COM STAFF 06\/26\/2010 00:21 Report claims Meir Dagan&#8217;s request to keep his job was rejected. Mossad Chief Meir Dagan is to leave his post in three months, Channel 2 news reported on Friday. According to the report, Dagan, who has been head of the Mossad for the last eight years, requested to work another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":20103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074,527,148,94],"tags":[942,1052,905,498],"class_list":["post-20102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-ireland","category-israel","category-uk","tag-expansionism","tag-israeli-expansionism","tag-mossad","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}