in the state comptroller's report on the performance of the Home Front Command during the 2006 Lebanon War. On 16 November 2008, Ayalon announced he would be leaving the Labor Party for the left-wing religious Meimad party. Ultimately he did not join Meimad, and lost his seat in the 2009 elections. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Ayalon agreed that "contingent occupation", and the lack of a "two-state solution", could lead to "a kind of ... apartheid", by saying, "Totally right. I think that we are heading directly into this destiny." In 2012, Ayalon featured in a documentary film The Gatekeepers directed by Dror Moreh and discussed the main events of his tenure in the Shin Bet. Ayalon is a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Published works Friendly Fire: How Israel Became its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for its Future References External links Fathom Journal – "Head to head: Moshe Arens and Ami Ayalon discuss coordinated unilateralism". Ami Ayalon in Chicago (video), June 1, 2010 Interview with France 24 (video), 2013 Ami Ayalon on Operation Bulmus 6 (video), 2017 1945 births Bar-Ilan University alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni Israeli Navy generals Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Directors of the Shin Bet Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009) Government ministers of Israel Living people People from Tiberias Recipients of the Medal of Valor (Israel) Israeli Labor Party politicians Israeli expatriates in the United States Israeli people of the Six-Day War Israeli people of the Yom Kippur War