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Hagai Levi

Hagai Levi is a reserve brigadier general in the IDF who commanded the Nahal Brigade and served as chief of staff of Central Command.

born 1946Commanding the Nahal BrigadeChief of staff, Central CommandDirector general of Haifa municipality

Born
27 January 1946, shuaffat
Occupation
military officer
Rank
tat aluf
Wars
South Lebanon conflict, Six-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War

Hagai Levi was born in 1946 in shuaffat

Hagai Levi was born on January 27, 1946. He was born and raised on Kibbutz Mizra. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Haifa.

He was drafted in 1964 and volunteered for the Paratroopers, where he later led a platoon and a company in Battalion 202. He fought in the Samu operation, the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He then commanded Battalion 13 of the Golani Brigade on the border with Lebanon.

In the Lebanon War he commanded the 609th Alexandroni Brigade. He became commander of the Nahal Brigade in 1985 and was chief of staff of Central Command from 1987 to 1990, during the First Intifada. From 1990 to 1993 he was the IDF attaché in Venezuela and Central America, and he retired in 1994.

After retiring he was director general of the Haifa municipality until 2004, then of the Givatayim municipality. From 2006 to 2009 he headed the economic company in Yeruham.

Hagai Levi's life in 8 milestones

  1. 1946

    Born on January 27.

  2. 1964

    Drafted into the IDF and joined the Paratroopers.

  3. 1979

    Began an advanced infantry course at Fort Benning.

  4. 1985

    Appointed commander of the Nahal Brigade.

  5. 1987

    Became chief of staff of Central Command.

  6. 1990

    Became IDF attaché in Venezuela and Central America.

  7. 1994

    Retired from the IDF.

  8. 2006

    Became head of the economic company in Yeruham.

Hagai Levi served in Paratroopers Brigade and Nahal Brigade

He served in the IDF from 1964 to 1994, rising from the Paratroopers to command the Nahal Brigade and serve as chief of staff of Central Command. He fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War and the Lebanon War, and holds the reserve rank of brigadier general.

Paratroopers BrigadeNahal Brigade

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Based on Hebrew Wikipedia, חגי לוי (קצין), under CC BY-SA 4.0. The facts are Wikidata's.

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