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Sagiv Asulin

Sagiv Asulin is a former Mossad officer and former chairman of the National Union of Israeli Students who now works as a researcher on Iran and on influence and public perception.

born 1978Chairing the National Union of Israeli StudentsOperational and command roles in the MossadFounding the Eighth Front organizationResearch on Iran and influence

Sagiv Asulin
Born
15 September 1978, Dimona
Occupation
researcher
Education
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Bar-Ilan University

Sagiv Asulin was born in 1978 in Dimona

Sagiv Asulin was born on 15 September 1978 in Dimona and grew up there. He is the eldest of 6 children of parents who immigrated to Israel from Morocco. He graduated from Lehman comprehensive high school.

He served in the Golani Brigade as a combat soldier and combat medic, and later as an officer in Lebanon until the IDF withdrawal in 2000. He studied politics and government and Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and later earned a master's degree in public administration.

He headed the student union at Ben-Gurion University and was twice elected chairman of the National Union of Israeli Students, leading the struggle over tuition fees. In 2004 he was elected to head the Students' Union of Mediterranean States, a body of 14 countries. He was a member of the tenth Council for Higher Education.

He was an adviser to Health Minister Danny Naveh and spokesperson for the Federation of Moroccan Jewry. He ran in the Likud primaries for the 17th and 18th Knessets as a youth representative. In 2010 he joined the Mossad and served in operational and command roles until 2025.

After October 7 he decided to leave the Mossad to focus on influence and public perception. He became a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs and Security, working on Israel and United States relations and Iran. He co-founded the Eighth Front organization and, in February 2026, the Jewish and non-Jewish Zionist Congress in Nashville.

Sagiv Asulin's life in 7 milestones

  1. 1978

    Born in Dimona.

  2. 2000

    Served as an officer in Lebanon until the IDF withdrawal.

  3. 2001

    Elected chairman of the Ben-Gurion University student union.

  4. 2004

    Elected head of the Students' Union of Mediterranean States.

  5. 2010

    Joined the Mossad.

  6. 2025

    Left the Mossad.

  7. 2026

    Co-founded the Jewish and non-Jewish Zionist Congress in Nashville.

Sagiv Asulin served in Golani Brigade

He served in the Golani Brigade as a combat soldier and combat medic, then as an officer in the Lebanon liaison unit and the Eastern Brigade in Lebanon until the 2000 withdrawal. In the Second Lebanon War he served as a reserve officer.

Golani Brigade

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Based on English Wikipedia, Sagiv Asulin and Hebrew Wikipedia, שגיב אסולין, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The facts are Wikidata's.

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