Daniel Mofaz

Terran Alliance

* Anti-Sith Assault Team

Colonel Daniel Mofaz, a human male, is a former member of the Israeli Army's Sayeret Matkal, and a current member of the Anti-Sith Assault Team. Mofaz joined the Israeli Army for 2 years at age 18, then returned to the army at age 24 after attending college, and served as a company commander and a member of the Sayeret Matkal. He was selected for the Anti-Sith Assault Team when it was first formed. He has taken part in several major battle and operations throughout the Clone Wars.

## Biography

### Early Life

Daniel Mofaz was born on January 31, 1962, in the city of Haifa, Israel. His parents had barely escaped the Holocaust, and his father had returned to Nazi-occupied territory to serve as a spy for the Allies. After the end of the war, and the foundation of Israel, Mofaz' parents settled in Haifa, where Mofaz was born and raised.

Mofaz grew up idolizing his father, and intended to make the military his life long career. He also extremely dedicated to his country, and was described by many who knew him in his teenage years as a dedicated patriot of Israel.

### Early military career and college

At the age of 18, Mofaz joined the army for his mandatory military service. He spent two years as a soldier in the 35th Brigade before being discharged. Wishing to become an officer, Mofaz was selected to study abroad, and attended the University of Virginia in the United States from 1982 to 1986, where he majored in Middle Eastern Studies with a minor in Psychology.

During his time at the university, Mofaz met an American Jew named Margaret Snow. They were married in in 1985, and when he returned to Israel, she moved there with him and applied for Israeli citizenship.

Upon returning to Israel in 1986, Mofaz rejoined the Israeli Army, now as an officer. He was again assigned to the 35th Brigade.

In 1987, Mofaz was selected for training as a Sayeret Matkal. He completed his training in 1989. He quickly gained a reputation for being rather ruthless in what he was willing to do in the name of Israel's security, even for a member of the Sayeret Matkal.

In mid 1990, Mofaz' Sayeret Matkal unit was sent on a mission to kill or capture a terrorist cell believed to be a direct threat to Israel. Mofaz and a major who had been a mentor to Mofaz during his training and first year in his unit were sent in ahead to find a way in and clear the way. While they were scouting for a way in, Mofaz' friend and mentor was shot and killed.

Mofaz, though afraid, continued on with his mission, and would later say he was mostly worried about failing. Mofaz was able to find a way into the hideout and killed the guards, allowing the rest of the strike team to follow him in and capture the terrorists. Mofaz was later decorated for his bravery.

Very soon after that mission, Mofaz' wife, Margaret, announced she was pregnant. The two welcomed a son, Benjamin, on July 16, 1991.

### Anti-Sith Assault Team

#### Induction and Early training

Soon after the Republic arrived on Terra, the Anti-Sith Assault Team was formed as a Terran defense against the threat of the Sith. Mofaz was one of the 12 men selected for the team after it was first formed.

On December 5, 1991, the team began its training under Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker. During the team's first meeting, Mofaz chose a green-gladed lightsaber as his weapon.

During the team's training, Mofaz chose to rely more on physical power during lightsaber combat than most of his teammates. He also was viewed by the rest of the team as simultaneously one of the most jovial members of the team and the most ruthless member of the team.

#### Operation Thunderstrike & Terran Campaign

Mofaz' first taste of combat as a member of the ASAT team came during Operation Thunderstrike. Mofaz and his teammate, 1st Lieutenant Grant Wilson, accompanied Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano to Baghdad to capture Saddam Hussein.

Mofaz, Wilson, Ahsoka, and Skywalker were taken to Baghdad aboard LAAT gunships. They were landed just outside Saddam's palace. Mofaz and Wilson used both their lightsabers and guns to fight their way into the palace.

Mofaz and Wilson accompanied Skywalker and Ahsoka as they began searching rooms for Saddam. It did not take long for them to find a meeting room where Saddam and much of his leadership were still in a meeting. Mofaz helped escort Saddam and his leadership to the waiting gunships, which then evacuated them back to Saudi Arabia.

Mofaz remained in Saudi Arabia throughout the Terran campaign, and saw no combat throughout the campaign. Soon after the campaign, Mofaz was promoted to the rank of Colonel by the newly formed Terran Joint Command.

When Terran units first began to deploy to the Andromeda Galaxy, Mofaz was initially assigned to duty on Terra, where he would remain for the first several months of Terran involvement in the Clone Wars.

#### Protecting Senator Amidala

In late May, 1992, Mofaz was deployed to Coruscant to replace his teammate, Colonel Shaul Peretz. Mofaz arrived on Coruscant on May 24, 1992.

The day after his arrival on Coruscant, Mofaz was training with Mace Windu when he was approached by Ahsoka Tano. Ahsoka told Mofaz that she had had a vision in which the bounty hunter Aurra Sing attempted to assassinate Senator Padme Amidala, and she had attempted to warn Amidala, but the Senator had refused to give up on her plans to travel to Alderaan for a conference concerning refugees from the Clone War. Mofaz and Ahsoka together agreed they would attempt to accompany Amidala to Alderaan.

After speaking with Ahsoka, Mofaz contacted a friend in the Mossad, Efraim Halevy. Mofaz requested that a small team of Mossad agents be sent to Alderaan in an effort to find Aurra Sing.

The following day, Mofaz and Ahsoka met Senator Amidala on the landing platform she was departing from and convinced her to allow them to accompany her to Alderaan for protection.

During the trip to Alderaan, Mofaz introduced Amidala to the game of chess. During a match, Mofaz noticed Ahsoka seemed troubled by something. After Mofaz asked her, Ahsoka confessed she felt insecure about being on her own. Mofaz shared the story of the mission when his mentor was killed and he had to complete his objective alone.

Later on during the trip, when Amidala was resting, Mofaz was patrolling the hall outside her quarters when Ahsoka ran out of her room and into Amidala's chambers, convinced that Aurra Sing was on the ship. When it became clear Sing was not, Mofaz helped calm Ahsoka, telling her that her mind was just playing a trick on her and taking her back to her room.

After landing on Alderaan, Mofaz quickly met with the Mossad agent in charge of the hunt for Aurra Sing before hurrying to rejoin the group. When he caught up with Ahsoka, the Padawan requested he follow her. The two made their way into a meeting Amidala was in, and Ahsoka told Amidala that she had had another vision, this time of Sing's assassination attempt taking place. Mofaz helped them identify the location where Sing would attempt to assassinate Amidala, which turned out to be the conference room where the refugee conference was to take place.

Mofaz coordinated with the Mossad to attempt to track down Sing before she could assassinate Amidala. However, when the conference began, Mofaz, while standing guard, spotted the muzzle of Sing's blaster poking through an air vent overlooking the spot where Amidala was standing. Mofaz attempted to drive her off by firing his blaster at the air vent. While it forced Sing to retreat, she unintentionally pulled the trigger, firing a blaster bolt that grazed Amidala.

Mofaz left the assembly hall to help the Mossad agents attempt to track down Sing, but they were unable to find her. Once it became clear she had escaped, Mofaz went to see Amidala. Once he was let into her chamber where she was recovering, Mofaz disagreed with an idea to send Amidala back to Coruscant, and instead came up with a plan to send a droid hidden beneath a cloak to conference in Amidala's place, and have Amidala remain in her quarters while speaking through the droid, in an effort to draw out Sing.

When the time for the conference came, Mofaz stationed himself near the door in case Sing attempted to come through the door to avoid the Mossad agents Mofaz had stationed in the air ducts. However, as the conference began, one of the agents said over the radio his concerns that they had played into Sing's hands. Realizing Sing may have anticipated such a move, Mofaz immediately ran for Amidala's quarters, arriving just in time to pull her out of the way of a blaster shot from Sing. Mofaz then forced her back down the air duct she was hiding in with his own blaster fire. When Mossad agents forced Sing out of the duct using tear gas, Mofaz used his blaster to stun Sing.

Mofaz helped to guard Sing for the remainder of the conference until Amidala returned to Coruscant. He also oversaw the Mossad interrogation of Sing, which produced the identity of her employer, Ziro the Hutt. When Amidala returned to Coruscant, Mofaz returned with her, escorting Sing along with several Sayeret Matkal commandos.

Upon returning to Coruscant, Mofaz, Ahsoka, and Anakin Skywalker, acting on the confession from Sing, made their way to the prison where Ziro the Hutt was being held. When the three attempted to get Ziro to confess, he initially resisted. However, Mofaz had brought a coil of rope with him. When Ziro initially refused to cooperate, Mofaz jumped behind Ziro, wrapping the rope around Ziro's throat and starting to choke Ziro with the rope. This convinced Ziro to confess the truth.

#### Return to Terra

Mofaz remained on Coruscant for almost 6 more months. When the Separatists invaded Kamino, Mofaz was sent to reinforce the planet, but he arrived too late for action. A few months la

Near the end of November, Mofaz received orders to return to Terra for duty on the planet. He left Coruscant on November 24, exactly 6 months to the day after his first arrival on Coruscant. He was replaced by his teammate, Colonel John White.

Upon his return to Terra, Mofaz returned to Israel. Not long after, Mofaz was asked to contribute to an Terran Alliance team that was investigating Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of the Galactic Senate.

Only a few months later, Mofaz was ordered back to the Andromeda Galaxy. Mofaz arrived back on Coruscant on March 16, 1993.

#### Battle of Umbara

Only a few weeks after his return to Coruscant, Mofaz, along with Colonel Dennis Rommel, was assigned to the task force intended to attack the planet of Umbara. Mofaz was assigned to lead the men of the Royal Canadian Army's Royal 22 Regiment.

Mofaz and the Royal 22 Regiment landed south of Umbaran capital, along with Jedi Master Saesee Tiin and his clones. Mofaz, Tiin, and their men marched against the Umbaran capital from the south in an effort to draw out the Umbaran militia to lessen the number of fighters that Obi Wan Kenobi would be faced with.

Mofaz and Tiin launched guerilla attacks against the Umbaran militia for nearly a day, wearing them down. After Fives, Echo, and Lieutenant Doyle destroyed a Separatist ship resupplying the Umbarans, Mofaz launched an all out attack and broke through the Umbaran defenses. He then pushed all the way to the capital, and worked together with Kenobi to finally capture the capital.

Mofaz remained on Umbara for over a week as part of the occupation force, then returned to Coruscant. He would remain on Coruscant for several months, and was present for the opening game of the Grand Army of the Republic Football League.

#### Battle of Onderon

In August 1993, Mofaz was again deployed to battle. The Onderonian Civil War was reaching its peak, and the Republic was still refusing to officially help the pro-Republic rebels. The Terran Joint Command decided to intervene, and dispatched 10,000 men of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division. Mofaz and Colonel Wilson were assigned to lead this force.

The invasion force was landed 20 miles outside the capital city. Mofaz and Wilson led the troops to the capital. However, by the time they reached the city, about half of the Separatist forces had already pulled out of the city. All remaining Separatist force were quickly destroyed, and the American troops occupied the city.

Mofaz only remained on the planet for 36 hours after the capital was captured. Once it was clear that all Separatist forces on Onderon had been destroyed, Mofaz set off for Coruscant.

#### Jedi Temple bombing

On September 29, 1993, Mofaz left Coruscant for a brief trip back to Terra. However, while on his way back to Terra, he received word that the Jedi Temple had been bombed.Mofaz immediately turned around and returned to Coruscant, arriving on October 3. By the time he returned to Coruscant, Ahsoka Tano had been accused of being the culprit and had been captured.

After arriving back on Coruscant, Mofaz met with the ASAT team's commander, Captain Samuel Adams, who let Mofaz know what he and Anakin Skywalker were working on to try and get Ahsoka's name cleared. Mofaz returned to the Jedi Temple and waited for further orders.

On the 4th, Mofaz received word from Adams that he and Skywalker had chased down Asajj Ventress, and Ventress had given them information that led them to believe that Barriss Offee might be behind the bombing. Adams asked Mofaz, as well as Colonel Wilson and Colonel White, to help him and Skywalker set a trap to capture Barriss. When Skywalker confronted Barriss, she attempted to escape, but Mofaz and White, along with several SAS commandos, blocked off one end of the corridor she tried to use to escape, while Adams and Wilson, along with several SEALs, blocked off the other end of the corridor. The four ASAT commandos, as well as Skywalker, engaged Barriss and were able to distract her long enough for Adams to hit her in the back with a taser.

Mofaz, along with his three teammates, then escorted Barriss to the court where Ahsoka was on trial. There, Barriss confessed her guilt, and Ahsoka was cleared of all charges. Mofaz and the three commandos then escorted Barriss to the Republic military's prison. Once Barriss was imprisoned, Mofaz left Coruscant again for his brief trip back to Terra. He spent only a week on Terra before returning to the Andromeda Galaxy, arriving back on Coruscant on November 2.

#### Mission to Scipio

On November 13, Senator Amidala returned to Coruscant with Rush Clovis, and information that suggested serious corruption among the heads of the Galactic Banking Clan. The Terran Joint Command was very suspicious of the situation, due in part to Clovis' involvement. The TJC, as a precaution, dispatched a task force, under the command of Vice Admiral Aleksander Vilikov, to take up station in a system just four parsecs away from the planet of Scipio, as well as dispatching two members of the new Zulu Force to Scipio for reconnaissance. Mofaz was ordered to join the task force.

On November 17, the Banking Clan crisis came to a head when Clovis seemingly turned against the Republic, and the Separatists invaded Scipio. Anakin Skywalker contacted Vice Admiral Vilikov and requested they make their way to Scipio to remove the Separatist from the planet.

The Terran task force arrived at Scipio very quickly, and Mofaz, along with some of his old comrades in the 35th Brigade, made their way down to the planet in LAATs, with SA-10s and Su-36s accompanying them to provide support.

Before Mofaz and the Israeli troops could reach Scipio's surface, the Separatist fleet in orbit retreated. Mofaz and the Israeli troops continued down to the planet's surface. They landed at the main banking fortress, and Mofaz, with several troops, snuck into the fortress to find Senator Amidala and Rush Clovis. He also communicated with the two Zulu Force commandos on the planet, who destroyed the battle droids holding Amidala, while remaining out of sight.

Within moments of the two Zulus destroying the droids, Mofaz and the three men accompanying him arrived in the chamber where Amidala and Clovis were. Mofaz ordered Clovis to surrender, but Clovis attempted to tell Mofaz that Dooku had deceived them all. Before Clovis could explain, a Vulture droid shot down by an Su-36 crashed into the fortress, causing the building they were in to begin to collapse. The Israeli troops were able to stop Amidala from falling out of the collapsing building, but Mofaz was unable to stop Clovis from falling to his death.

Mofaz remained on Scipio for several hours to ensure that Scipio was fully under Terran control. Once he felt comfortable leaving, he accompanied Amidala back to Coruscant.

Once back on Coruscant, Mofaz attended a Senate meeting in which a Muun representative announced the intention of the Banking Clan to transfer control of the banks to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Despite Palpatine's promise to reinstate the banks following the Clone Wars, Mofaz felt very suspicious, and immediately contacted General Colin Powell to pass on his report of the whole situation, as well as Palpatine's latest suspicious action.

#### Retreat to Terra

Mofaz remained in the Andromeda Galaxy well into 1994, taking part in several battles in the Outer Rim Sieges. When the Separatists launched their attack on Coruscant, Mofaz came with a fleet to attempt to reinforce the planet, but the fleet arrived after the battle was over.

Mofaz quickly returned to action, and went on multiple missions with the Bad Batch in support of Republic campaigns. During that time, he was present when the Bad Batch removed the inhibitor chips implanted in their heads.

In mid July, the Terran Alliance received intelligence that the Separatists were planning a second attack on Terra. Mofaz was one of the members of the ASAT team who was ordered back to Terra to prepare for such an attack.

Mofaz was still on Terra in July 1994 when the Republic turned on the Jedi and Alliance, and the Alliance retreated to Terra. Mofaz assisted in the integration of clone units into the Terran Alliance Armed Forces. In late August, Mofaz traveled to the Terran Jedi Temple construction site for the first meeting of the entire ASAT team since December 1991, where the entire team swore an oath to see the Empire and Sith destroyed.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*