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Commander Of The Navy (Israel) ...
The Commander of the Israeli Navy is the head and highest-ranking officer of the Israeli Navy, and has operational control and is responsible for overall operations of the navy. The current Commander Eli Sharvit. List of officeholders References {{Chief of the navy by country Israeli Navy Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Sharvit
Aluf Eli Sharvit is a general in the Israel Defense Forces who served as the Commander of the Israeli Navy between 2016 and 2021. Life and career Sharvit was born on kibbutz Sde Boker and grew up in Beersheba. He was one of three children born to Yosef and Esther Sharvit, History of the Jews in Morocco, Moroccan Jewish immigrants to Israel. He attended the Makif Alef school in Beersheba. He is married to Eti and the father of three children. Sharvit was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1985 and joined the Israeli Navy. He remained in the navy as an officer after his mandatory service. Sharvit served in numerous positions and later headed the navy's missile boat fleet in 2009. Sharvit then served as the commander of the Haifa naval base, taking over command from then-base commander Ram Rothberg, from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 onwards until his appointment as Commander, he served as the Chief of staff for the Israeli Navy. Commander of the Israeli Navy On September 12, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Barkai
Michael (Yomi) Barkai ( he, מיכאל ברקאי; January 26, 1935 – May 28, 1999) was the Commander of the Israeli Navy, a recipient of the Medal of Distinguished Service for his command of the missile ships during the Yom Kippur War. Biography Childhood Barkai was born in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, as a first born of Moshe and Rachel Borsok. As a boy, he experienced the persecution and violence directed against the local Jewish community by the National Legionary State and the Ion Antonescu regime. In December 1947, his family tried to make aliyah to Palestine, but their ship was caught by the British and they were sent to the Cyprus internment camps, as the British prohibited Jews emigration to Palestine under the White Paper of 1939. When Israel declared its independence, his family finally arrived in Israel and settled in Bat Yam. In Bat Yam, Barkai realized his love for the sea. Service in the Israeli Navy In 1953, Barkai enlisted in the Israeli Ground Forces in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Rothberg
Aluf Ram Rothberg ( he, רם רוטברג; born February 5, 1964) is an admiral in the Israel Defense Forces who was the head of the Israel Navy. Service history Rothberg commanded the Flotilla 13 special forces unit from 2001 to 2004 and presided over some of its most notable operations, such as the raid on the Karin A arms smuggling ship in January 2002. He later served as the Chief of Naval Intelligence during the Second Lebanon War and was reprimanded by then- Chief of Staff Dan Halutz for the 14 July 2006 attack on the Israeli corvette INS ''Hanit''. An Iranian-supplied C-802 anti-ship missile fired by Hezbollah hit the warship, whose crew was apparently unaware that the Lebanese group possessed such weapons. The strike left four sailors dead and the ship temporarily disabled. Rothberg was criticized over his contribution to the failure, but later was promoted to the position of commander of the Navy's Haifa base. Afterwards, Rothberg served in the Israeli National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eli Marom
Eliezer (Eli) Marom ("Chayni") ( he, אליעזר "אלי" מרום "צ'ייני", born in 1955, Sde Eliezer, Upper Galilee, Israel) is the former Commander of the Israeli Navy serving from 2007–2011. As of 2015 he serves as the head of the Israel Airports Authority. Born in Sde Eliezer, Israel, Marom is of Chinese descent. He held the rank of Aluf in the Israeli Navy. Early life and family Marom was born and raised on moshav Sde Eliezer, in the Hula Valley. His father Erik was a German-born Jew and his mother Leah (originally Chai Li) was born in China, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish woman and a Han Chinese man who had converted to Judaism. His parents met when his father escaped to China as a refugee from Europe during World War II. He was the seventh of his parents' eight children and was born weeks after his family immigrated to Israel. Marom studied Marine Engineering in the Israel Nautical College in Akko. While he studied there, one of his commanders called him "Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ben-Besht
David Ben-Besht ( he, דוד בן בעש"ט; born 1950) is a general in the Israel Defense Forces. Until 2007 he was commander of the Israeli Navy. Biography David Ben-Besht was born in Israel. He received a B.A. in Economics and Business Management from the University of Haifa and studied at the United States Marine Corps College for a year in the early 1970s. Naval career Ben-Besht began his military career as a draftee in 1970, but then volunteered to attend the naval officer's course. Through the 1970s he commanded a number of vessels including a Saar 2 and a Saar 4 missile boat. During the 1980s he moved into the area naval instructional, and from there he continued to advance up the chain of command, becoming the Israeli Navy's Chief of Staff in 2002 and commander in September 2004. As Naval Commander, Ben-Besht dealt with Palestinian arms smugglers moving equipment by boat from Egypt into the Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yedidya Ya'ari
Yedidya Ya'ari ( he, ידידיה יערי, born 30 June 1947) was the commander of the Israeli Navy from 2000 to 2004. He was succeeded by David Ben Ba'ashat. Biography Ya'ari is the grandson of Meir Ya'ari, former leader of the Mapam party. He is the father of three and lives in Merhavia. Navy career In July 1969, as a commando in Shayetet 13, he was badly wounded and mistakenly declared dead during Operation Bulmus 6, the assault on fortified Green Island, Egypt, in the Gulf of Suez (jointly with Sayeret Matkal). Photography career After retiring from active army service, Ya'ari worked as an assistant cameraman for three years at Herzliya Studios. Business career He was CEO of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. ( he, רפאל - מערכות לחימה מתקדמות בע"מ, formerly Rafael Armament Development Authority), ("Rafael" from Hebrew acronym of "Authority for the Development of Armaments" - ) is an Israel ... Ltd. In 2016, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Tal
Alex Tal (Hebrew: אלכס טל; born 1946 USSR) was the Commander of the Israeli Navy. Naval career Alex Tal made aliyah from the Soviet Union in 1964 and enlisted in the Israeli Navy. After his training he served on the first Missile boat the Israeli Navy received. He also participated in the Cherbourg Project. During the Yom Kippur War, he participated in Battle of Latakia as a captain of one of the missile boats. After the war, Tal continued to serve in the Israeli Navy. His posts included Commander of the missile boat fleet and the IDF Military attaché to Chile. In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of Aluf and became Commander of the Israeli Navy. Under Tal's command the INS Dakar, whose location remained a mystery for nearly thirty years, was found. In 2000, Tal's term as commander of the Israeli Navy ended and he retired from the IDF. Tal has a Master's degree in Economics from Bar-Ilan University, and a master's degree in Geography from the University of Haifa The Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Ayalon
Ami Ayalon ( he, עמיחי "עמי" איילון, born 27 June 1945) is an Israeli politician and a former member of the Knesset for the Labor Party. He was previously head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the Navy. He came in second to Ehud Barak in a Labor party leadership election in June 2007, and was appointed a Minister without Portfolio in September 2007. He is one of the recipients of Israel's highest decoration, the Medal of Valor. Biography Amihai (Ami) Ayalon was born in Tiberias, and grew up in kibbutz Ma'agan. His parents moved to Palestine in the 1930s. His mother was born in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania, came as a young girl to study in Jerusalem; his father, Yitzhak, emigrated illegally also from Transylvania, Romania, and was one of the founders of Ma'agan, where he worked until retirement as a carpenter. Ayalon graduated from Bar-Ilan University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1980. In 1992, he received a Master of Public Administ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micha Ram
Micha Ram (July 4, 1942 – January 14, 2018) was an Israeli Aluf (Military reserve) in the Israel Defense Forces. He was the Commander of the Israeli Navy in the years 1989–1992. :he:מיכה רם Israel Defense Forces: Navy Biography In 1956, at age 14, Ram joined a Naval Academy in Akko. He joined the missile fleet of the Israeli Navy. In early 1973, he became the commander of a Sa'ar 4 class missile boat. During the Yom Kippur War, his missile boat, along with four other missile boats under the command of General Michael Barkai, took part in the historic naval Battle of Latakia against the Syrian Navy. Two days later he was involved in Battle of Baltim. By the 1970s, Ram became in charge of many roles in the command center of the Israeli Navy, and in 1975 he was given command of the Israeli missile boat fleet. In 1977, he was promoted to the rank of Aluf mishne and he became the assistant commander of the Israeli Naval Fleet in the Red Sea. In 1980, he was promoted to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avraham Ben-Shoshan
Avraham Ben-Shoshan (Hebrew: אברהם בן-שושן; born 1940) was an Aluf in the IDF, and served as the Commander of the Israeli Navy in the years 1985–1989. Biography Ben-Shoshan was born in Turkey to a Jewish family that made aliyah when he was six. The family settled in Kfar Saba. His family lived in poverty and, at the age of 14, he left his home and started working on a fishing boat. When Ben-Shoshan enlisted in the Navy, he joined the submarine unit, and eventually became the captain of a submarine. Later on, he served in the missile ship fleet and by the 1980s he became the Commander of the Israeli missile ship fleet. He was the commander of the missile ship fleet during the First Lebanon War. In 1985, with the rank of Aluf, Ben-Shoshan became the Commander of the Israeli Navy. In 1989, his term as Commander of the Navy ended and soon afterwards he resigned from the IDF. After the IDF, Ben-Shoshan became a member of the Israeli government under Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ze'ev Almog
Zeev Almog ( he, זאב אלמוג; also written Ze'ev Almog; born 1 February 1935), was the Commander In Chief (C.I.C.) of the Israeli Navy from 1979 to 1985. He was also General Manager of Israel Shipyards from 1986 to 1995. Early life Almog was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. His parents had emigrated from Poland in 1933. Almog had one younger brother, Amikam. Almog grew up and was educated in Haifa. In August 1952, he graduated from the religious High School of "Yavne" and joined the Israeli Army in the framework of Benei Akiva (a religious youth organization), the "Nahal". Almog graduated from Class Commanders and Physical Education Instructors courses and served in the infantry brigade of the Nahal. Naval service In May 1954, Almog volunteered for the Naval Commando Unit and in 1955 was certified as a Naval Commando Warrior. He was then sent to Officers and Naval Cadets Schools. In July 1957, Almog was qualified as a naval officer. In November of the same year, he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Telem
Benjamin Telem ( he, בנימין תלם) (1928 – 16 June 2008) was the 9th Commander of the Israeli Navy (1972–1976). Early life and education Born Benjamin Blumenthal in Dessau, Germany, in 1928, Telem immigrated to Haifa, during the Mandate era, as a child in 1933. He attended the Haifa Naval School, joining the Palyam shortly after graduation. Later on in his career Telem would complete officer courses in England. Career in the Navy In 1956, during the Suez Crisis, Telem served as head of branch operations of the Navy, and shortly after the war, in 1957, was appointed commander of the destroyer ''Yaffo'', a position he held for two years. Telem also took part in the Six-Day War, the Cherbourg Project, and the War of Attrition as a Navy officer. In 1972 he was promoted in rank to Major General and elevated to Commander of the Navy. Yom Kippur War Telem's skill as Commander was quickly tested by the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Contrary to the opinion of others in the IDF inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
