Israeli ex-Mossad spy chief Meir Dagan dies at 71

Meir Dagan, a former Israeli general and longtime director of its spy agency, has died.

He was 71.

Dagan directed the Mossad from 2002 to 2011. Under him, the Mossad assassinated several Iranian nuclear scientists.

He however openly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opposition to the recently implemented nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

Dagan was born in 1945 in Ukraine.

He died from cancer.