Haim Levi

Haim Levi was born in 1925 in Binyamina

Haim Levi was born in Binyamina in 1925 to Hadassa and Bezalel Levi. His father was active in the Haganah and kept weapons caches. In 1944 his parents moved to the moshav Beit Yitzhak-Sha'ar Hefer.

From age 15 he was active in Gadna and led a youth company in the Haganah. He joined the Jewish Settlement Police in 1943 and served there for 3 years. In the War of Independence he was a deputy company commander in the Alexandroni Brigade and was wounded at Majdal Yaba.

In 1954 he joined the Border Police. During the Sinai War he commanded a company in the Triangle area, where the Kafr Qasim massacre took place in his sector. He later commanded the northern Border Police and led its forces in the Beit She'an Valley during the War of Attrition.

He commanded the Border Police from October 1972 to January 1976. In 1974, after the Ma'alot massacre, he ordered the creation of the Yamam counterterrorism unit. He studied criminology at Bar-Ilan University.

In August 1976 he became Prison Service Commissioner and served until 1981. The High Court ruled that enemas could not be performed on prisoners without their consent, a measure tried in his time against drugs. He then farmed in Beit Yitzhak and died of cancer in 2012.