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Ariel Ben Dayan

Ariel Ben Dayan is an Israeli reserve colonel who commanded the Oketz and Lotar units and the Marom Brigade.

Commanding the Oketz unitCommanding the Lotar unitCommanding the Marom Brigade

Occupation: military officer
Rank: aluf mishne
Wars: South Lebanon conflict

The story of Ariel Ben Dayan's life

Ariel Ben Dayan was born on March 14, 1975. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a master's degree in law from Bar-Ilan University.

He volunteered for the armored reconnaissance company of Brigade 500, where he trained as a fighter and took an infantry squad commanders course. After an infantry officers course he held command posts, including aide to Southern Command chief Yoav Galant and head of the school for marksmanship, sniping and counterterrorism. He later commanded the Oketz unit and then the Mitkan Adam training base as a colonel.

In 2014 he was tried and reprimanded by chief infantry and paratroopers officer Yehuda Fuchs for allowing a private donor to hold a bat mitzvah party at Mitkan Adam. He took part in Operation Brother's Keeper and retired from career service in 2017.

After his service he was vice president of operations at the Adelson Group and a director at Elco and Airodrome.

Ariel Ben Dayan's life in 3 milestones

1975
Born on March 14.
2014
Reprimanded over a private bat mitzvah party at Mitkan Adam.
2017
Retired from IDF career service.

Ariel Ben Dayan served in Oketz

He began in the armored reconnaissance company of Brigade 500, later commanded the Oketz unit and Mitkan Adam as a colonel, and took part in Operation Brother's Keeper. He retired from career service in 2017.

Oketz