Isser Be'eri

Isser Be'eri
איסר בארי
Isser Be'eri in 1949
Head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate
In office
30 June 1948  3 July 1949
Personal details
Born
Isser Birenzweig

1 January 1901
Będzin, Russian Empire
Died30 January 1958 (aged 57)
Israel
NicknameBig Isser

Isser Be'eri (Hebrew: איסר בארי, born Isser Birenzweig; 30 January 1901 – 1 January 1958) was the director of the Haganah Intelligence Service in Israel and was responsible for helping to reorganise Israeli intelligence services in 1948, as well as ordering the execution of Meir Tobianski, who had been convicted of treason but was later found to have been innocent. He was the founding director of the Israeli Intelligence Department (between 1948 and 1949), which later became the Military Intelligence Directorate.