Ben Zion Farhi

Ben Zion Farhi was born in 1937 in Bulgaria

Ben Zion Farhi was born in Bulgaria. He immigrated to Israel at age 10 and grew up in Tel Aviv.

He joined the IDF Combat Engineering Corps in 1957 and served in Battalion 601, completing squad commander and officer courses. During his service he began studying law at the University of Jerusalem, and later worked as a civil law attorney. As a reservist he fought in the Six-Day War and in the War of Attrition helped build the Bar-Lev Line.

Shmuel Goder recruited him back to career service, where he worked as a military prosecutor and later as a military judge. In the Yom Kippur War he served as an engineering officer for 3 months. He was appointed Military Advocate General in 1984, and from 1986 to 1996 he was president of the Military Court of Appeals with the rank of major general.

After retiring he became CEO of the Karnit fund in 1997 and held the post for 14 years. He was a member of the Ivri Committee on the helicopter disaster and serves as a judge in the Israel Football Association court. Until 2016 he was the only IDF major general who came from the Combat Engineering Corps.