Yehoshua Saguy

Yehoshua Saguy was born in 1933 in Jerusalem

Yehoshua Saguy was born in Jerusalem on September 27, 1933. His father came from Russia and his mother was born in the Old City of Jerusalem. He attended the Beit HaKerem high school, today the Hebrew University Secondary School.

He earned a bachelor's degree in history and international relations from Tel Aviv University.

Saguy joined the IDF in 1951 and spent his career in intelligence roles, serving in the Sinai War, the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. He became deputy head of Military Intelligence in 1978 and its head in 1979. He opposed the 1981 attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor and resigned in 1983 after the Kahan Commission's recommendations about the massacres in the Lebanon refugee camps.

In 1988 he was elected to the Knesset for Likud and sat on the Finance and Foreign Affairs and Defense committees until 1992. He later served as mayor of Bat Yam until 2003. He was also Israel's ambassador to the Philippines.

Saguy died on February 18, 2021.