Chaim Nadel

Chaim Nadel was born in 1933 in Poland

Nadel was born in 1933 in Lviv, Poland, to Sarah and Israel. He came to Israel on April 23, 1946, and studied at the B. Z. Mossinson Youth Village.

He joined the IDF in 1952 and volunteered for the paratroopers. He fought in reprisal raids, in the Mitla battle in the Sinai Campaign, and later commanded the Paratroopers Brigade from 1969 to 1971. In the Yom Kippur War he led reserve Brigade 317, whose units took the Syrian Hermon, and he was wounded.

He was chief of staff of Southern Command from 1973 to 1975 and commanded the Ha-Mapatz armored division from 1975 to 1979. From 1979 to 1983 he was president of the Military Court of Appeals as a major general. He left the IDF in 1985, and that year, as a reserve judge, he acquitted Yitzhak Mordechai in the Bus 300 affair.

He studied history at Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University and earned a doctorate at the University of Haifa. He wrote books on the IDF, held a senior role at Telrad, and in 2006 joined the Winograd Commission on the Second Lebanon War. He was married to Leah, had 3 children, and died on October 15, 2026.