Yosef Amit

Yosef Amit (; 1945 – June 2025) was a former Israeli military intelligence major who was convicted of espionage in 1987. Amit is thought to have spied for the United States and a European NATO country, though this has never been confirmed by the Israeli government.

Amit's wife, Tzila, was a physical education teacher at the Yavnieli school in Haifa. They had two sons: Yuval and Oded.

Arrest and conviction Shin Bet and the Israel Police began to suspect Amit after one of his friends reported that he had spoken of links with US intelligence.

The Israeli Supreme Court rejected an appeal by him in 1989.

At one point, Israeli officials considered offering to exchange Amit for Jonathan Pollard, a US naval intelligence analyst who had spied for Israel and had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987. However, when Amit heard of this, he sent a letter to the State Attorney's Office, stating that he had no desire to be any part of such an exchange, and claimed that his confession had been extracted illegally.

During Amit's imprisonment, his father, who died a year before he was released, made repeated unsuccessful attempts to have more details on the case publicized.