Meshulam Amit

Meshulam Amit was born in 1935

Meshulam Amit was born in 1935. He was the second husband of the writer Galila Ron-Feder-Amit.

He joined the Border Police in 1963 as a platoon commander. From 1964 to 1966 he served in Ethiopia on the team that set up the local police. Back in Israel he commanded companies and served as a training officer and an operations officer.

In 1974 he became a deputy brigade commander, and from 1975 to 1978 he headed the training department at national headquarters. He later commanded the Negev district and, from 1981 to 1985, the Haifa district. In 1985 he became head of the operations branch with the rank of major general, and he led the Border Police from 1989 to 1993.

From 1994 to 1999 he sat on a Jerusalem municipal committee for education, culture and sport for the United Jerusalem faction led by Ehud Olmert. In 1996 he was third on the Moledet list for the Knesset, but the party won 2 seats and he did not enter. He died on July 3, 2024.