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Yossi Melamed

Yossi Melamed was an Israeli brigadier general in the Armored Corps and later an adviser to Israel's ministers of internal security.

1945 to 2005Armored Corps commandChief of staff, Southern CommandAide to internal security ministers

Died: 6 January 2005
Occupation: military officer
Rank: tat aluf
Wars: 1982 Lebanon War, Six-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War

Yossi Melamed was born in 1945 in Glil Yam

Yossef (Yossi) Melamed was born in 1945 at Kibbutz Glil Yam to Esther and Moshe Melamed. He was the second of 4 children.

He joined the Armored Corps and served as an armored infantry soldier in Battalion 9 of the 7th Brigade. He fought in the Six-Day War, was discharged, and returned to career service in 1969. He rose through command posts and was a division commander and chief of staff of Southern Command.

He left the IDF in 1996. Avigdor Kahalani then appointed him as his assistant at the Ministry of Internal Security. He kept this role under the next 4 ministers, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Uzi Landau, Tzachi Hanegbi and Gideon Ezra.

He was married to photographer Noa Ben Nun Melamed, and they had 2 sons. He died of cardiac arrest at his home in 2005 and was buried at Glil Yam.

Yossi Melamed's life in 6 milestones

1945
Born at Kibbutz Glil Yam.
1969
Returned to career military service.
1980
Appointed commander of the 188th Brigade.
1984
Appointed commander of the 460th Brigade, the Armored Corps training brigade.
1996
Left the IDF and became an aide at the Ministry of Internal Security.
2005
Died at his home.

Yossi Melamed served in Armored Corps

He served in the Armored Corps, commanding an armored infantry company in the Six-Day War and serving as deputy commander and then commander of Battalion 75 in the Yom Kippur War. He later commanded the 188th and 460th Brigades and Divisions 440 and 252, was deputy to Avigdor Kahalani in Division 36 during Operation Peace for Galilee, and reached the rank of brigadier general.

Armored Corps