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Friday April 25, 1997

Think tank names head

TEL AVIV (JPS) -- A senior Mossad official has been named to head Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, the
Uzi Arad, who has held several key positions in the Mossad, in October will take over as the replacement for director Ze'ev Maoz

Tel Aviv University sources close to the Jaffee Center said the appointment of Arad is an attempt to return to the high-profile status the center enjoyed under the leadership of its late founder, Aharon Yariv, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence.

With Yariv at the helm, the center became known as the home of generals-turned-academics who wrote numerous policy studies.

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