Moshe Saar

Moshe Saar was born in 1935 in Radziłów

Moshe Saar was born in 1935 in Poland as Moshe Simigren and survived the Holocaust as a child. After the war he sailed with his family on the immigrant ship Moledet, which the British seized, and they were held in detention camps in Cyprus. In July 1948 they reached the Land of Israel.

The family lived in a transit camp near Hadera, then in Haifa and Kiryat Haim. He studied at the Amal vocational school, worked at a factory, and completed his matriculation exams at the Alliance school in Haifa.

He joined the IDF in 1955 and finished pilot training in 1957 with distinction. He flew Mystere and Vautour jets and in the Six-Day War led the first strike on Beni Suef air base in Egypt. He later commanded Squadron 116 and then Squadron 102 during the War of Attrition.

In May 1973 he became commander of Wing 15 and flew with Squadron 102 in the Yom Kippur War. In 1974 he set up the air force quality control and safety directorate. He left the IDF as a colonel in 1982.

He then joined the Lavi project at Israel Aerospace Industries and earned a bachelor's degree in social sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He works as a quality assurance consultant. He is married to Tzipra Saar and has 2 children.