Avraham Rotem

Avraham Rotem was born in 1934 in Gesher

Avraham Rotem was born on May 29, 1934, in Kibbutz Gesher. He grew up in Ashdot Ya'akov.

He joined the IDF in 1952 and served in the 7th Brigade of the Armored Corps, where he became a tank platoon commander. He left in 1955 and returned to career service in 1959. He commanded the 126th Battalion in the Six-Day War and later the 82nd Battalion, which he led in the Battle of Karameh.

In 1972 he took command of the 401st Brigade, and in the Yom Kippur War he was deputy commander of the 146th Division. He later commanded the 440th Division and, from 1974, the 252nd Division. In December 1975 he became a major general and head of the IDF Training Department, and he retired in 1984.

After leaving the army he was a partner in Cable-Net, which won a cable television franchise for the Haifa area in January 1989. In a 2001 paper, published after his death, he wrote about air and ground cooperation in the First Lebanon War. He died on November 21, 2006.