Asaf Agmon

Asaf Agmon was born in 1948

Asaf Agmon, born Eichhorn, was born in Haifa in 1948 and grew up in Kiryat Haim. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in 1966.

He joined the IDF in 1966 in the paratrooper Nahal and fought near Jerusalem and Hebron in the Six-Day War. He then asked Ezer Weizman to join pilot training and finished as a fighter pilot in 1969. After a serious injury in a training flight he moved to transport aircraft, flew in the Yom Kippur War and later commanded squadrons 122 and 131.

In 1977 he flew Moshe Dayan to a secret meeting in Morocco. He took part in Operations Moses and Solomon to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel and commanded the Sde Dov and Lod bases. From 1993 to 1996 he served as IDF attaché in Japan and South Korea, and he retired in 1997.

He holds degrees from Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa. After the army he was CEO of KPMG Somekh Chaikin Israel and headed the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies from 2003 to 2015. In 2018 he founded a group within the Labor Party.

From 2020 to 2022 he was among the leaders of protests against Benjamin Netanyahu, and he later protested the judicial reform. His grandson, a Golani soldier, was killed in southern Lebanon in November 2024. His autobiography was published in January 2025.