Avraham Peer

Avraham Peer was born in 1937 in Lisbon

Avraham Peer was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1937 to Max and Rivka Regina Plocker, who had come from Poland in 1923. His father owned a chandelier factory, and the family belonged to the city's small Zionist Jewish community. He had two sisters, Rachel and Esther.

As a member of the Maccabi Hatzair movement, he decided to move to Israel and arrived alone in 1951 aboard the ship Negba. He studied Hebrew at the Neve Hadassah youth village and in 1952 entered the maritime school, later the Akko naval officers school. In 1969 he graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Technion.

He joined the navy in 1956 and became an engineering officer. He served on ships, commanded the navy engineering school and held technical commands in the navy shipyard and the Red Sea arena. From 1974 he led the technical team supervising the building of the Gal submarines at Vickers in England, and he headed that team from 1976.

After returning to Israel in 1978, he headed the engineering and readiness department at navy headquarters. He died in 2022.