page_title: History of the Israel Defense Forces
section_title: Other famous generals and soldiers
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Israel Defense Forces / Appendices / Other famous generals and soldiers
caption_attribution_description: English: Ilan Ramon, astronaut killed during the failed re-entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia. עברית: אילן רמון Español: Ilan Ramon, astronauta fallecido durante la reentrada fallida del Columbia.
context_page_description: The history of the Israel Defense Forces intertwines in its early stages with history of the Haganah.
context_section_description: Yanush Ben Gal, Yom Kippur War hero, held back Syrian forces
  Tat-Aluf (Brigadier General) Efi Eitam, head of the National Religious Party
  Aluf (Major General) Yair Naveh, highest ranking religious combat general
  Tat-Aluf Arie Eldad, chief military physician, professor of medicine
  Aluf-Mishne (Colonel) Imad Fares, Druze officer, commander of Givati Brigade (2001–2003)
  Amos Yarkoni, the first commander of the Shaked Reconnaissance Battalion of the Givati Brigade, and one of six Israeli Arabs to be awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service
  Meir Har-Zion, Unit 101 commando raider
  Avigdor Kahalani, Yom Kippur War general, held back Syrian forces
  Zvika Greengold, tank commander who fought against enormous odds in the Golan Heights in the early hours of the Yom Kippur War
  Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, a war hero of Sayeret Matkal, killed in Operation Entebbe
  Meir Pail, commander of the IDF officers' college, and military historian
  Aluf (Major General) "Musa" Moshe Peled, armor general
  Aluf Mishne Ilan Ramon, senior F-16 pilot, bombed Iraqi reactor in 1981, first Israeli astronaut, died in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster
  Aluf Ariel Sharon, commander of Unit 101, general of armored division during Yom Kippur War, prime minister until 11 April 2006.
  Tat-Aluf Yiftah Spector, senior F-16 pilot, bombed Iraqi reactor
  Aluf "Talik" Israel Tal, the "Father" of the Merkava main battle tank project
  Aluf Matan Vilnai, general and Labour Party member
  Aluf Amram Mitzna, general, former Labor party leader
  Aluf Itzhak Mordechai, senior paratroop commander, former defense minister
  Admiral Ami Ayalon, commander of the Israeli Navy and later head of the Shin Bet internal security service.
  Aluf Meir Zorea, Major-General and Commander of Tank Corps during 1967 War.
caption: F-16 pilot and astronaut Ilan Ramon
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