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Yosef Ayal

Yosef Ayal is an Israeli reserve brigadier general who served as the IDF's Chief Engineering Officer from 1985 to 1989.

IDF Chief Engineering OfficerEngineering role in Sinai evacuationJewish National Fund management

Occupation: military officer
Rank: tat aluf
Wars: 1982 Lebanon War, Six-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War

The story of Yosef Ayal's life

Yosef Ayal joined the IDF in 1962 and began in a flight course. After leaving it, he moved to the Combat Engineering Corps, where he served as a soldier and then as an officer.

He taught in a course for sergeants and headed a section at the military engineering school. He took an engineering officers course in the United States and later commanded the combat engineering officers course. In the Yom Kippur War he was deputy commander of an engineering battalion made up of the school's staff and trainees.

During the evacuation of Sinai under the peace treaty with Egypt, he was the engineering officer of Southern Command. In October 1985 he became Chief Engineering Officer with the rank of brigadier general and held the post until 1989. He then served as assistant to the head of the Planning Directorate.

After leaving the army, he became head of the human resources and administration division of the Jewish National Fund and its acting director general.

Yosef Ayal's life in 3 milestones

1962
Joined the IDF and began a flight course.
1985
Appointed Chief Engineering Officer as a brigadier general.
1989
Finished his term as Chief Engineering Officer.

Yosef Ayal served in Combat Engineering Corps

Ayal served in the Combat Engineering Corps from 1962, fought in the Yom Kippur War as a deputy battalion commander, and was Chief Engineering Officer from 1985 to 1989 as a brigadier general.

Combat Engineering Corps