Moshe Bar-Kochva

Moshe Bar-Kochva was born in 1930 in Galicia

Moshe Bar-Kochva was born Moshe Brill in Galicia in 1930 to Dvora and Max Brill. He came to the Land of Israel in 1942 and grew up in Rehovot. As a teenager he joined the Irgun and commanded a company in it at 16.

He fought as a private in the War of Independence and later moved to the Armored Corps. In the 1956 Sinai campaign he led a company at Ruafa Dam and received the Medal of Courage. He commanded Brigade 45 in the Six-Day War and was deputy commander of Division 210 in the Yom Kippur War.

He became a major general in 1979. In 1982 he was named chief armored officer and led Corps 479 in the First Lebanon War. He headed the Southern Command from 1983 to March 1986 and left the IDF in November 1990.

After leaving the army he became director general of Israel Railways. In 1992 he sought a Likud Knesset seat but withdrew. He died in Tel Aviv in 1992, and the Ashdod Ad Halom railway station bears his name.