Assaf Hefetz

Assaf Hefetz was born in 1944 in Kfar Menahem

Hefetz was born in Kfar Menahem. He holds a bachelor's degree in social sciences from Bar-Ilan University.

He joined the IDF in 1962 and volunteered for the Paratroopers. He fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War, and later commanded the 202 paratroop battalion. In 1975 he was removed from that command after a raid on Kfar Shouba.

He moved to the Border Police and became commander of the Yamam unit. During the Coastal Road attack in 1978 he reached the hijacked bus before his unit, killed 2 attackers and was wounded. He received the Israel Police Medal of Courage for this.

In 1981 he took command of the Tel Aviv district central unit. A police disciplinary court later convicted him of leaking information to journalists and fined him. He then held several posts and became commissioner in 1994, serving until 1997.

After retiring he led the Shitorit company and was elected chairman of the Israel Tennis Association in 2006. In 2008 he joined Likud but did not enter the Knesset. He had a stroke in 2013.