Micha Ram

Micha Ram was born in 1942 in Kfar Bialik

Micha Ram was born in 1942 to Zvi Rimland and Renate Getz. In 1956 he joined the Naval Academy in Akko.

He began the naval officers course in October 1960 and was commissioned in 1962. He served on torpedo boats in Eilat and Haifa and later commanded one. In 1966 he joined the team receiving the new Sa'ar boats being built in Cherbourg, France.

In early 1973 he became commander of INS Reshef, the first Sa'ar 4 class missile boat. In the Yom Kippur War his boat fought in the Battle of Latakia against the Syrian Navy and in the battle off the Egyptian coast against Egyptian missile boats.

In 1975 he took command of the missile boat fleet, and in 1980 he became head of Naval Intelligence. After 1982 he served as military attaché in the United States and later headed naval operations. He commanded the Navy from 1989 to 1992, when it upgraded its Sa'ar 4 boats to Sa'ar 4.5 and secured Sa'ar 5 corvettes and Dolphin submarines.

He retired in 1992 after 32 years of service. He was married to Chayah of the Simkin family, and they had 3 children. He died in 2018.