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Pesach Malovany

Pesach Malovany is a retired IDF colonel and intelligence officer who became a historian of Arab armies and their wars.

born 1945Research on Arab armiesIntelligence service in Unit 8200Books on Middle East wars

Occupation: historian, military officer
Education: Tel Aviv University
Rank: aluf mishne
Wars: 1982 Lebanon War, Six-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War

Pesach Malovany was born in 1945 in Soviet Union

Malovany was born in the Soviet Union in April 1945 to parents from Poland who had fled before the Nazi occupation. After some years in displaced persons camps in Germany, the family immigrated to Israel in 1949. He grew up and went to school in Herzliya.

He earned a bachelor's degree at Tel Aviv University in general history, military history and Middle East studies.

He served in Military Intelligence in both collection and research roles. His posts included Unit 515, the Research Division, Unit 8200 and the IDF Foreign Relations Division. He retired with the rank of colonel.

After leaving the IDF, he did military research in the Mossad's research and intelligence department. He later became an independent researcher of the military history of the region. He has published books and articles on Arab armies, Arab intelligence services and Soviet and Iranian involvement in the Middle East.

Pesach Malovany's life in 7 milestones

1945
Born in the Soviet Union.
1949
Immigrated to Israel with his family.
2010
Published a book on the rise and fall of the Iraqi army.
2014
Published a book on the Syrian army and its wars.
2017
Published a book on Soviet military involvement in the Middle East.
2018
Co-edited a volume on the Six-Day War.
2021
Published a book on the October 1973 war on the Syrian front.

Pesach Malovany served in Unit 8200

He served as a combat intelligence officer in Unit 515 in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War, and later headed an intelligence arena in Unit 8200 during the Lebanon War. He retired as a colonel.

Unit 8200