Chaim Benyamini

Chaim Benyamini was born in 1938 in Tel Aviv

Chaim Benyamini was born in Tel Aviv in 1938 and grew up in Ramat Gan. He attended Tichon Hadash high school.

He enlisted in the IDF in 1956 and volunteered for the paratroopers, where he rose from platoon commander to company commander. He fought at Rafah in the Six-Day War, commanded Battalion 202 in the War of Attrition, and led the Officers School force in the Yom Kippur War. He commanded the Golani Brigade from 1975 to 1976 and was chief intelligence officer from 1977 to 1979, retiring in 1982.

He earned a bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964, a master's in organizational behavior from the University of Chicago in 1980, and a doctorate in labor studies from Tel Aviv University in 2016.

After the army he managed human resources at Scitex until 1988, during a reorganization that included wide layoffs. In 1988 he became vice president of human resources at Teva, retiring in 2004 and staying on as an adviser. He lectured at Tel Aviv University from 1997 to 2003 and joined the board of Gilat Satellite Networks in 2005.