In a survey quoted by Eitay Mack, Gazit described Israel’s existing economic, military and intelligence ties with Iran as head of the Foreign Ministry’s Middle East Department. Mack places those ties within Israel’s support for the Shah’s dictatorship and awareness of repression. The survey records Gazit’s analytical work.
Historian Uri Bialer also cites this survey: Gazit to the Foreign Ministry, 23 February 1966, Israel State Archives 3998/6.
Raz Zimmt’s study records a conversation between Gazit and Iranian prime minister Amir-Abbas Hoveyda about the proposed Islamic alliance. It cites Gazit’s letter of 6 March 1966: the date of the report, rather than a separately verified meeting date.
More than a decade later, the Iranian crisis also reached his desk in Paris. Eldad Ben Aharon’s study identifies a dispatch from Gazit dated 30 November 1978, reporting on Khomeini’s arrival in France and continuing political propaganda. Together, these records illuminate two aspects of his work: interpreting regional relationships and reporting on them as they changed.[I1][I3][I4][I5][I6]