Aharon Levran

Aharon Levran was born in 1932

Levran was born in Poland in 1932 with the family name Lubliner. His family moved to the Land of Israel and lived in the Shapira neighborhood of Tel Aviv. He attended the Bilu religious Zionist high school, belonged to the Bnei Akiva youth movement and played basketball for Maccabi Ramat Gan.

He was drafted in 1950 and served in the Armored Corps, where he finished an officers' course. He later commanded the Givati Brigade patrol unit and received a decoration for his part in Operation Yarkon in 1955. In the Sinai War he was acting commander of the Eilat area.

He studied Middle East studies and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was among the commanders of the Knesset Guard. He returned to the army in 1962 and held intelligence posts, including deputy commander of Unit 154 and assistant to the head of the research division for operations until 1974. In the 1960s he recruited a senior Egyptian officer as an agent for Israel.

He later served as IDF attaché in Japan and as deputy commander of the National Defense College, and retired in 1984. From 1984 to 1988 he was a senior researcher at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and wrote on security and strategy. He was married with 2 children and died in 2023.