Arnon Ben Ami

Arnon Ben Ami was born in 1949 in Ramat Gan

Arnon Ben Ami was born in Ramat Gan in 1949. He attended the Hebrew Reali School and graduated from the military boarding school in Haifa in 1966.

He joined the IDF in August 1966 and served in the Artillery Corps, fighting near Jerusalem in the Six-Day War and later in the War of Attrition. He left the army in 1971 to study in the United States. He returned to fight in the Yom Kippur War on the Golan Heights, was wounded, and received the Chief of Staff's citation.

After the war he earned a master's degree in business administration in the United States. He returned to career service in 1976 and commanded Battalion 402 from 1979. He later led the Kidon formation, the Shivta base and the Central Command home front, and headed the IDF and Defense Ministry mission in Singapore.

He retired in 1996 and then headed the Emergency Economy Division at the Ministry of Defense until early 2008. In 2003 he served for about 2 months as acting Soldiers' Complaints Commissioner. He is married with 2 sons.