Hadar Kimchy

Hadar Kimchy was born in 1929 in Ein Harod

Hadar Kimchy was born in 1929 in Kibbutz Ein Harod. His parents, Dov and Bella, came from Ukraine and Poland and changed the family name from Miller to Kimchy. In summer 1946 he took a seamanship course at Neve Yam and joined an immigration operation at sea.

In late summer 1947 he joined a Haganah platoon in the Jezreel Valley, later part of Battalion 13 of the Golani Brigade. He fought at Beit She'an, Kokhav HaYarden, where he was wounded in the shoulder, and Nazareth. He then moved to the new Navy.

In Shayetet 13 he became chief diving instructor and later deputy commander. He trained on submarines in France and Britain, and in 1960 he brought the submarine INS Rahav to Israel as its first commander. He later commanded the destroyer INS Haifa, the submarine flotilla and the missile boat flotilla.

He led the Cherbourg boats operation, headed the Naval Department and became IDF attaché in London in 1973. He left the IDF in 1976. He then managed Ashdod Port and held posts at the Citrus Marketing Board and Ata.