Amiad Brezner

Amiad Brezner was born in 1927 in Rehovot

Amiad Brezner was born in Rehovot in 1927. His grandfather Natan Brezner belonged to the group that bought the land of the town, and his father Gershon came there alone as a boy in 1890. He studied in Rehovot and then at the Max Fein vocational school in Tel Aviv.

At 19 he joined the Palmach. In the War of Independence he defended Kfar Darom and later fought with the Negev Brigade. He stayed in the IDF as a career officer and served in Israel's wars up to the Yom Kippur War.

He married Batsheva in 1957. He taught at the Armored Corps school from 1961 to 1964 and became a lieutenant colonel in 1971.

After leaving the army in 1980 he earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Tel Aviv University and a doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He wrote articles and books on the Armored Corps and recorded interviews with senior armor commanders. In his last years he worked at the Rehovot city archive, and he died in 2012.