Hagay Regev

Hagay Regev was born in 1943 in Kfar Haroeh

Regev was born in 1943 in Kfar Haroeh in the Hefer Valley. He studied at the Midreshet Noam religious high school. He later earned a bachelor's degree in international relations and studied at the US Army War College in Carlisle.

He joined the IDF in 1963 and spent most of his service in the Armored Corps. He fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. From 1976 to 1978 he headed the office of Chief of Staff Motta Gur and took part in the peace talks with Egypt.

He commanded Brigade 401, the Armored Corps school and, from 1982, Division 611. In 1985 he became military secretary to Yitzhak Rabin. In 1986 he was convicted in a disciplinary trial of improper conduct over loans from his driver and was reprimanded. He left the army in October 1987.

He then advised the defense minister on defense industries and represented the Defense Ministry in South Africa until 1994. An inquiry there into money moved through his bank account was closed. In 2010 he became director of the Soldiers' House in Ramat Gan. He died in Pretoria on December 31, 2021, and was buried in Hibat Zion.