Aharon Peled

Aharon Peled was born in 1933 in Tel Aviv

Aharon Peled was born in Tel Aviv in 1933, the youngest of 5 children. His father died when he was a baby. He was a member of the HaMahanot HaOlim youth movement.

He served in the Nahal and completed officers' course, then left the army in 1954 to work on a kibbutz. Before the Sinai War he returned to the army as a paratroop officer and moved to the Armored Corps after a parachuting injury. He later studied at the Command and Staff College.

In the Six-Day War he commanded Battalion 125 in battles in Sinai up to the Suez Canal. In 1968 he led a tank force in Operation Tofet at Karameh. He then commanded Brigades 11 and 188, and led the main force in a 1972 raid into the Fatahland.

In July 1973 he was replaced as commander of Brigade 188 after remarks he made at a brigade officers' meeting. In the Yom Kippur War he commanded Brigade 11, which crossed the Suez Canal on October 19. He later commanded Division 194 and the Solomon Region, and retired in 1983.

He was married to Hana and had a son and a daughter. He died on October 12, 2020, and was buried in Yarkon Cemetery.