serviceyears laterwork branch commands death_date birth_place allegiance battles birth_date rank article_title name
1948 -- 1977 president of elbit systems israel israel air force , hatzor airbase 13 july 2002 tel aviv , mandatory palestine israel israel 1948 , yom kippur war , operation entebbe arab-israeli war , suez crisis , six-day war 1928 aluf benny peled
 benjamin `` benny '' peled
benny peled

benny peled -lrb- ; 1928 -- july 13 , 2002 -rrb- , born benjamin weidenfeld in tel aviv , mandatory palestine , was the commander of the israeli air force during the yom kippur war and operation entebbe .
he retired with the rank of aluf -lrb- major general -rrb- .
