Amnon Reshef

Amnon Reshef was born in 1938 in Haifa

Amnon Reshef was born Amnon Isaac in Haifa in 1938. He grew up in Tel Aviv and Bat Yam. As a teenager he worked to help support his family and studied mechanical metalwork at an evening vocational school.

He joined the IDF in 1956 and served his whole career in the Armored Corps. He fought in the Six-Day War and commanded battalions during the War of Attrition. In 1972 he took command of the 14th Brigade, which held the Suez Canal line when the Yom Kippur War began and later crossed the canal.

After the war he commanded the 162nd Division and studied at the Royal College of Defense Studies in London. He commanded the Armored Corps from 1979 to 1982 as a major general and retired in 1984.

He then worked as an executive at Urdan Industries, which took part in the Merkava tank project, and later in private business. In 2013 he published a book on the 14th Brigade in the Yom Kippur War, which won the Moldovan Award and the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize.

He chaired the Council for Peace and Security. In 2014 he organized a letter by retired senior security officials to the prime minister and founded Commanders for Israel's Security, which supports a two-state solution.