Yoash "Matti" Tzidon ( he, יואש צידון, 28 November 1926 – 8 July 2015) was an Israeli former Air Force commander and politician.
Biography
Born Yoash Chatto in
Focşani,
Romania in 1926, Tzidon made
aliyah
Aliyah (, ; he, עֲלִיָּה ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel, which is in the modern era chiefly represented by the Israel, State of Israel ...
to
Mandatory Palestine in 1941. He attended the Hebrew Navy school at the
Technion, and later at the Aerial Warfare School in
France. Between 1944 and 1948 he was a member of the
Palmach
The Palmach (Hebrew: , acronym for , ''Plugot Maḥatz'', "Strike Companies") was the elite fighting force of the Haganah, the underground army of the Yishuv (Jewish community) during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine. The Palmach ...
, and was involved in
illegal Jewish immigration from Egypt and Cyprus between 1945 and 1947. In addition to assisting illegal Jewish immigrants in their attempts to run the British blockade of Palestine, Tzidon took part in sabotage operations against British ships in Cyprus. During the
1948 Arab-Israeli War
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he was a commander involved in convoys to
Jerusalem. He later served as a combat pilot in the
Israeli Air Force, before becoming a test pilot, flight trainer, squadron commander and a deputy Air Force base commander. He later became head of the Weapons Systems and Planning in the Air Force, before being demobilised in 1966.
Yoash Tsiddon (Chatto): Particulars
Knesset website
He joined the Movement for Greater Israel, and later the Tzomet party. He was elected to the Knesset in 1988
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on the Tzomet list, and was one of the instigators of the law that led to direct elections for the Prime Minister. He lost his seat in the 1992 elections.
See also
*Operation Tarnegol
Operation Tarnegol ( he, תרנגול, Rooster) was an Israeli Air Force operation carried out on the eve of the 1956 Suez Crisis. It witnessed an Israeli Gloster Meteor NF.13 intercept and destroy an Egyptian Ilyushin Il-14 carrying high-ranking ...
References
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1926 births
People from Focșani
Romanian Jews
Romanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Aliyah Bet activists
Palmach members
Israeli Air Force personnel
Israeli Jews
Tzomet politicians
Movement for Greater Israel politicians
Members of the 12th Knesset (1988–1992)
2015 deaths