Meir Most

Meir Most was born in 1949 in Ashdot Ya'akov Ihud

Meir was born in 1949 and grew up on Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov Ihud. At 14 he set up an air cadets club on the kibbutz. At 16 he flew a glider solo and a Piper Cub at Ein Shemer.

He joined the IDF in October 1967 and served in an air defense battalion in Sinai before entering flight course 63, which he finished in November 1970. He flew with Squadron 107 until 1980 and fought in the Yom Kippur War on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts.

In 1982 he earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Technion and returned to Squadron 107 as deputy commander. He commanded Squadron 69 and later the School of Air Warfare, then headed a department at Air Force headquarters.

He left regular service in 1990 and flew Boeing aircraft for El Al as a captain, instructor and examiner until 2016. In 2002 he founded Terravision, which built three-dimensional geographic models and was sold in May 2022.

In 2023 he founded the group Pilots and Fighters Against Refusal, which opposed bringing politics into the army. He lives in Petah Tikva, is married and is a father of 4.