Haim Granit

Haim Granit was born in 1933 in Wiżajny

Haim Granit was born Haim Greenberg on March 12, 1933, in Wiżajny, Poland, to Hana and Yitzhak Greenberg. During World War II his family was deported to Lithuania and in 1941 fled into Russia, where he worked on a collective farm while his father served in the Red Army.

After the war he waited in the Lindenfels camp in Germany. He sailed on the Exodus, which was turned back, and reached the country in March 1948 on the ship Kadima. He studied at the Kfar HaRoeh yeshiva and worked as a carpenter.

He joined the IDF in July 1952 and became an artillery officer. He later studied civil engineering at the Technion, commanded artillery battalions in the Six Day War and the War of Attrition, and founded Battalion 55. He commanded Brigade 215 in the Yom Kippur War and later became chief of staff of Southern Command.

From 1980 to 1982 he was Chief Military Police Officer and brought computer systems into the corps. He led the North American branch of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers from 1982 to 1985, left the army in 1986, and then worked as a deputy director of UJA in Israel. He lived in Elkana and died on October 24, 2025.