Zohar Palti retired from government service in 2022 after four decades in some of the most sensitive positions in Israel’s national security establishment. Among his positions, he served as director of the Policy and Political-Military Bureau at Israel’s Ministry of Defense, where his responsibilities included conducting Israel’s defense ties with strategic partners around the world and directing defense and security relationships with foreign countries. He let the Mossad Intelligence Directorate and was the counterterrorism chief of the organization. Before that, Palti served for twenty-five years in the IDF Intelligence Corps.