Abraham Ashur

Abraham Ashur was born in 1942

Abraham Ashur, born Mosly in 1942, grew up in Kiryat Haroshet and later in Kiryat Eliezer in Haifa. His father came from Damascus and his mother from Beirut. He was the eldest of 7 children and joined the Zevulun sea scouts at about age 10.

In 1956 he entered the Naval Officers School in Akko, graduating in 1960. He then completed officer training and the naval officers course in 1962 with distinction.

He commanded a torpedo boat in Eilat, led the naval officers course, and commanded the missile boat INS Mivtach's sister ship INS Miznak until 1971. He later commanded INS Romach and Flotilla 41, served as airborne signals officer in the 1976 Entebbe operation, and commanded the Ashdod naval base from 1979 to 1982. In the 1982 Lebanon War he commanded the naval landing operations.

After a command course at the US Naval War College in Newport, where he earned an M.A. in management, he headed naval intelligence from 1983 to 1985 as a brigadier general. He headed naval personnel from 1985 to 1987 and was naval attaché in Washington from 1987 to 1990.

After retiring he became a civilian flight instructor. He died on October 2, 2010.