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Amiram Levin
Amiram Levin (Hebrew: עמירם לוין; born 7 July 1946) is an Israeli writer and commentator who formerly served as an aluf (major general) in the Israel Defense Forces and as deputy chief of Mossad.
Amiram Levin served in Sayeret Matkal and rose to become its commander. He was commander of the IDF Northern Command. He was severely wounded in the Yom Kippur War. Levin served as deputy chief of the Mossad.
Levin was director and chairman of the National Roads Company of Israel until 2006.
Between 2004 and 2022, he was director of the Israeli branch of the Chinese EKPAC corporation which deal with medical devices, agritech and cleantech. He dealt extensively with the business and technology worlds as an entrepreneur, partner and investor in private and public Israeli technology and cyber companies. Levin is one of the founders of NextVision, an electro-optics company.
In 2022, he was added to the board of directors of Pomvom, a company that develops and provides technology solutions related to artificial intelligence-based digital photography.
Levin's views on the Palestinian conflict have varied through the years.
According to an Al Jazeera documentary, in 2013, Levin stated at an arms industry conference that Israel's goal in the occupied territories was to create more 'room to manoeuvre' by punishing the Palestinians, adding that, "You have to understand, most Palestinians were born to die – we just have to help them." The documentary was false because at the conference Levin spoke about his view about the element of punishment during wartime in Lebanon and Gaza, where Israel used to fight militant jihad organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas, and did not speak about the occupied territories or the Palestinians specifically. The quote was also distorted and he said: "Most of these guys were born destined to die, so we need to help them", committing to the enemy he is facing without saying "Palestinians".
A leading figure on the Israeli left and member of the Israeli Labor Party, Levin is considered a liberal icon. After losing out to Avi Gabbay in the Labor party's elections in June 2017, he expressed his support for the winner. He has supported Breaking the Silence, and thinks the army has grown soft because of the occupation. He also believes Palestinians deserve being occupied militarily because they refused to accept the borders set out for two states in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan. He does not accept the borders existing before the 1967 war, thinks Israel was right to conquer the West Bank ('Judea and Samaria') and is on record as advocating the expansion of Israeli settlements. He has also opined that if Palestinians fail to abide by agreements, Israel should "tear them apart" in a future war and forcibly transfer them to "the other side of the Jordan River", i.e. Jordan. Recently he has suggested a loosening of the Gaza blockade, and advocates allowing Palestinians in Gaza the use of an airport and a port, on condition that if rockets continue to be fired against Israel, entire neighbourhoods there should be flattened.
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Amiram Levin
Amiram Levin (Hebrew: עמירם לוין; born 7 July 1946) is an Israeli writer and commentator who formerly served as an aluf (major general) in the Israel Defense Forces and as deputy chief of Mossad.
Amiram Levin served in Sayeret Matkal and rose to become its commander. He was commander of the IDF Northern Command. He was severely wounded in the Yom Kippur War. Levin served as deputy chief of the Mossad.
Levin was director and chairman of the National Roads Company of Israel until 2006.
Between 2004 and 2022, he was director of the Israeli branch of the Chinese EKPAC corporation which deal with medical devices, agritech and cleantech. He dealt extensively with the business and technology worlds as an entrepreneur, partner and investor in private and public Israeli technology and cyber companies. Levin is one of the founders of NextVision, an electro-optics company.
In 2022, he was added to the board of directors of Pomvom, a company that develops and provides technology solutions related to artificial intelligence-based digital photography.
Levin's views on the Palestinian conflict have varied through the years.
According to an Al Jazeera documentary, in 2013, Levin stated at an arms industry conference that Israel's goal in the occupied territories was to create more 'room to manoeuvre' by punishing the Palestinians, adding that, "You have to understand, most Palestinians were born to die – we just have to help them." The documentary was false because at the conference Levin spoke about his view about the element of punishment during wartime in Lebanon and Gaza, where Israel used to fight militant jihad organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas, and did not speak about the occupied territories or the Palestinians specifically. The quote was also distorted and he said: "Most of these guys were born destined to die, so we need to help them", committing to the enemy he is facing without saying "Palestinians".
A leading figure on the Israeli left and member of the Israeli Labor Party, Levin is considered a liberal icon. After losing out to Avi Gabbay in the Labor party's elections in June 2017, he expressed his support for the winner. He has supported Breaking the Silence, and thinks the army has grown soft because of the occupation. He also believes Palestinians deserve being occupied militarily because they refused to accept the borders set out for two states in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan. He does not accept the borders existing before the 1967 war, thinks Israel was right to conquer the West Bank ('Judea and Samaria') and is on record as advocating the expansion of Israeli settlements. He has also opined that if Palestinians fail to abide by agreements, Israel should "tear them apart" in a future war and forcibly transfer them to "the other side of the Jordan River", i.e. Jordan. Recently he has suggested a loosening of the Gaza blockade, and advocates allowing Palestinians in Gaza the use of an airport and a port, on condition that if rockets continue to be fired against Israel, entire neighbourhoods there should be flattened.