Lieutenant General Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel ( ar, عبد المنعم خليل‎; 1 April 1921 – 23 March 2022) was a general in the Egyptian Army. Khaleel was born in 1921, and graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1942. He assumed command of the Egyptian 2nd Army during the

Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Eg ...

, replacing Major General

Saad Mamoun Lieutenant General Mohammed Saad Eddin Mamoun, usually known in English as Saad Mamoun (14 May 1922 – 28 October 2000), was an Egyptian war hero and was the commander of the Egyptian Second Army during the Yom Kippur War. He was commissioned i ...

. He later apparently commanded the Central Military Region. He

turned 100 A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldwide are below 100 years, the term is invariably associated with longevity. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living cente ...

in April 2021, and died on March 23, 2022, nine days before his 101st birthday.وفاة الفريق عبد المنعم خليل قائد الجيش الثاني الميداني بحرب أكتوبر 1973

Military career

* He graduated from the Military College in May 1942 * Participated in the 1948 Palestine War, the 1956 Triple Aggression, the Yemen War 1962–1967, the 1967 War, the War of Attrition, the October 1973 War. * Chief of Staff, Fourth Brigade, infantry * Head of operations for Arab forces in Yemen * Commander of the Egyptian Parachute Corps 1967 * Chief of Staff, Second Infantry Division * Commander of the 3rd Infantry Division after the 1967 war * Chief of Staff of the Second Army * Commander of the Second Field Army until 1972 * Head of the Armed Forces Training Authority * Commander of the military central region during the October War until October 16 * The commander of the second army on October 16, 1973, the period of the breach * Assistant Minister of War and Commander of Popular and Military Defense * Assistant Minister of War and Chairman of the Armed Forces Training Authority

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* http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc//awcgate/milreview/yomkippur_intel.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Khaleel, Abd-Al-Minaam 1921 births 2022 deaths Egyptian centenarians Egyptian generals Egyptian Military Academy alumni Egyptian people of the Yom Kippur War Men centenarians People from Minya Governorate