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Ilan Egozi

Ilan Egozi is a retired Israeli naval commando officer of Shayetet 13 who received the Medal of Courage and the Medal of Distinguished Service.

born 1944The 1969 Green Island raidOperation Bardas 54-55 in LebanonEgyptian captivity after Alexandria raid

Occupation: military personnel
Education: Tel Aviv University
Rank: aluf mishne
Wars: 1982 Lebanon War, Six-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War

Ilan Egozi was born in 1944

Ilan Egozi was born in 1944 and grew up on Kibbutz Kfar Menahem. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Technion and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

He joined the IDF in 1962 and volunteered for Shayetet 13, later becoming a team commander after officers' course. In the Six-Day War he took part in a raid on Alexandria port, was captured and was held by Egypt for 9 months.

In 1969 he was wounded in the raid on Green Island and kept leading his men, earning the Medal of Distinguished Service. In 1973 he was badly wounded in Lebanon when a grenade he tried to throw away exploded in his hand, and he received the Medal of Courage.

He later commanded the naval commando force at Sharm el-Sheikh in the Yom Kippur War and moved to Navy headquarters. He left the IDF in 1987 as a colonel.

After his discharge he was an envoy of the Jewish National Fund in England and headed its office there. He then managed a fund of the Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization and in 2014 ran for its chairmanship.