Amos Luria

Amos Luria was born in 1946 in Ashdot Ya'akov

Amos Luria was born in 1946 in Ashdot Ya'akov, the son of Ahuva and Moshe, who were among the kibbutz founders. His brother was Avraham Rotem, an IDF major general. He attended a vocational school in the Jordan Valley.

He enlisted in 1964 for pilot training, left the course in 1965 and moved to the Armored Corps. He was wounded in the Six-Day War near Rafah, and in May 1970 he was badly wounded during the War of Attrition and lost his right hand. After a medical discharge he studied at Tel Aviv University.

He volunteered in the Yom Kippur War and later returned to career service in 1975. He commanded the Iron Chariots Formation in the First Lebanon War and was deputy commander of Division 252, retiring in 1986. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Tel Aviv University and graduated from the National Defense College.

He served two terms as director general of Magen David Adom, starting in 1986 and 1995. He was director general of the Beit Shemesh municipality and of the Rehovot municipality from 1999 to 2001, and sat on the board of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company. He died on June 26, 2021, and was buried in Kiryat Shaul cemetery.