Amiram Eliasaf

Amiram Eliasaf was born in 1950

Amiram Eliasaf was born on April 16, 1950. He joined flight course number 61 and finished it with honors in the fighter track.

In the Yom Kippur War he flew Phantoms with Squadron 201 and made 38 sorties over Egypt and Syria. He later served as a flight course instructor, a track commander and a member of the air force aerobatic team.

In 1981 he took command of Squadron 69, a Phantom squadron. In the First Lebanon War his squadron destroyed 11 of the 19 Syrian missile batteries destroyed in the war, and he received a citation from the air force commander. From 1983 to 1985 he led Squadron 133, which flew F-15 jets.

He commanded Ramon base, which received the IDF base award from Chief of Staff Ehud Barak. He then commanded Hatzerim base. After a training accident in April 1993, air force commander Herzl Bodinger ended his term, and he retired from career service.

Later he sat on the Kfar Shmaryahu council, served as a director at TAT Technologies and worked at Israel Aerospace Industries. He holds degrees from Bar-Ilan University and Harvard University. He is married to painter Smadar Eliasaf and they have 3 children.