- Abraham Rabinovich
Abraham Rabinovich is a historian and journalist who has published several books on recent Jewish history. As a reporter, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the The New Republic, and the Christian Science Monitor. Before becoming a writer full-time, he was employed as a staff journalist for Newsday and the Jerusalem Post. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and a veteran of the United States Army.
- Shaul Mofaz
"'"' (born 1948 in Tehran, Iran) is the current Israeli Minister of Transportation and a Deputy Prime Minister, and a former Minister of Defense. Previously he was the 16th Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, and was the first Israeli of Iranian origin to achieve that post. Mofaz was born in Tehran, although his parents came from Isfahan. Mofaz has had the unique distinction of serving under four different Israeli Prime Ministers, …
- David Elazar
David "Dado" Elazar, was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, serving in that capacity from 1972 to 1974. He was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.
- Zvi Zamir
Zvi Zamir born Zvicka Zarzevsky was a Major General in the Israel Defense Forces and the Director of the Mossad from 1968 to 1974. Born in Poland, Zamir immigrated with his family to the then British Mandate of Palestine when only seven months old. At the age of 18 Zamir began his military career, first as a soldier in the Haganah's Palmach, a unit that included future Israeli leaders among the likes of Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin.
- Ashraf Marwan
Ashraf Marwan (b. 1945) was the husband of Mona Gamal Abdel Nasser, the daughter of the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Marwan died on 27 June 2007 after falling off a window of his flat on the fifth floor in London. The Body was repatriated to Egypt on June 30th, 2007. Burial ceremony is scheduled for July 1st 2007 in Cairo. Dr. Ashraf Marwan, who had previously been accused of being a senior Mossad agent operating in Egypt prior to the Yom Kippur War, …
- Amos Gitai
Amos Gitai (born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli film director. His father was an architect whose family name was originally Weinraub. Gitai was studying architecture himself when he was called up to serve in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. While serving in a helicopter rescue crew, Gitai shot 8 mm footage of the war. Gitai has claimed that this served as his entry into the world of filmmaking.
- Gabi Ashkenazi
Lieutenant General Gabi (Gabriel) Ashkenazi, born 1954 in Hagor, Israel, is the 19th Chief of General Staff of Israel Defence Forces (Hebrew: רמטכ"ל Ramatkal).
- Eli Zeira
Eli Zeira was a Major General in the Israeli Defense Forces. He was director of Aman, Israel's military intelligence, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He is most remembered for his ill-conceived prewar assessment that Egypt and Syria would not attack, despite intelligence to the contrary (also known as "The Concept"). The postwar Agranat Commission, set to investigate the reasons for the costly war, found Zeira to be negligent of his duty, and he resigned.
- Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
Brigadier-General (Res.) Binyamin "Fouad" Ben-Eliezer (born February 12, 1936) is an Israeli politician and former soldier. He was the first Iraqi Jew to lead the Israeli Labour party. On May 4, 2006, he became Minister of National Infrastructure in the Kadima led coalition government. Born in Iraq, Ben-Eliezer immigrated to Israel (an action known to Zionists as the aliyah) in 1950. Ben-Eliezer entered the army in 1954, and became a career soldier.
- Avigdor Kahalani
Brigadier-General (Tat Aluf), Avigdor Kahalani was an Israeli soldier and politician.
- Simcha Dinitz
Simcha Dinitz was an Israeli statesman and politician. He served as Director General of the Prime Minister's office and political advisor to Prime Minister Golda Meir from 1969-1973, before becoming the Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 1973 to 1979. During the 1980s he was elected to the Knesset. Dinitz played a major role in coordinating the weapons shipments to Israel received from the U.S. during the Yom Kippur War airlift in 1973, …
- Yuli Tamir
Professor Yuli Tamir (born Yael Tamir, 26 February 1954) is an Israeli scholar and politician and former Minister of Immigrant Absorption. She is now Minister of Education, representing the Labour Party. Between 1972-1974, she served in Aman's 848 Unit, and during the Yom Kippur War, she served as an officer in an outpost on the Sinai. Tamir received a BA in Biology and an MA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Effi Eitam
Efraim (Effie) Eitam (Fein) (born 25 June 1952), is an Israeli politician. Eitam is a Knesset member, head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party, which forms part of the National Union, and the former leader of the National Religious Party. He serves on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees. An orthodox Jew, he was born on Kibbutz Ein Gev and received a secular education. When he was old enough, Eitam joined the Israeli Defence Forces.
- Effie Eitam
Efraim (Effie) Eitam (Fein) (b. June 25, 1952), is an Israeli politician. Eitam is a Knesset member, head of the Renewed Religious National Zionist party, and the former leader of the National Religious Party. He serves on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees. An orthodox Jew (Hebrew: חזר בתשובה), he wasborn on Kibbutz Ein Gev and received a secular education. When he was old enough, Eitam joined the Israeli Defence Forces.
- Shmuel Gonen
Shmuel "Gorodish" Gonen was an Israeli general and Chief of the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War.
- Motti Ashkenazi
Motti Ashkenazi, a 33-year-old reserve captain in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), helped spark the movement that led to the resignations of Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. He was the captain of Budapest, an Israeli outpost on the Suez Canal. This was one of the only IDF outposts that did not fall to the Egyptians in the Yom Kippur War.
- Zevulun Orlev
Zevulun Orlev (born 9 November 1945) is an Israeli politician and leader of the National Religious Party. Orlev, like Effi Eitam, is considered a war hero by the State of Israel and received the Medal of Distinguished Service in the Yom Kippur War.
- Yonatan Netanyahu
Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu or Jonathan Netanyahu, for his conduct in the Yom Kippur War. He was killed in action during Operation Entebbe at Entebbe airport, by Ugandan soldiers, where the Israeli military rescued hostages after an aircraft hijacking. He was the leader of the assault, and the only Israeli military casualty of the raid.
- Abraham Adan
Avraham (English transliteration: Abraham) "Bren" Adan (born October 1926) is an Israeli army general who served in the military between 1947 - 1973. He was born in Kfar Gileadi, British-Mandate Palestine in 1926. He joined the Jewish self-defense force, the Palmach, in 1943, before the country of Israel declared its independence in 1948. During Israel's War of Independence during 1947-1948, he led the Negev Brigade in capturing the Jordanian outpost of Eilat, …
- Yitzhak Hofi
Yitzhak Hofi was the director of Mossad from 1974 to 1982. Hofi was born in Tel Aviv. He joined the Haganah in 1944 and commanded a company in the Arab-Israeli War in 1948. He continued to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces in a variety of command, staff and training posts. He headed the Northern Command of the IDF during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. He was Acting Chief of Staff for a brief period in 1974, …
- Herzl Bodinger
Aluf (ret.) Herzl Bodinger is a retired general in the Israel Defense Forces and a former Commander in Chief of the Israeli Air Force. He is a jet-era flying ace, with 5 kills. Bodinger was born in Israel and joined the IDF in 1961. He volunteered to attend the flight academy and graduated as a fighter pilot, and flew Dassault Mystère and Vautour aircraft. During the Six-day war, he was a Vautour pilot, and participated in Operation Moked, …
- Ahmad Ismail Ali
Ahmad Ismail Ali was the Commander-in-Chief of Egypt's army and minister of war during the Yom Kippur War. He is best known for his planning of the attack across the Suez Canal that surprised Israel on October 6, 1973, and began the Yom Kippur War. Ismail graduated from the Cairo Military Academy in 1938, saw service with the Allies in the Western Desert during World War II, and fought as a brigade commander in the first Arab-Israeli war (1948–49).
- Zvika Greengold
Zvika "Zvi" Greengold was an Israeli IDF tank commander who fought during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Due to his actions during the war he became a national hero in Israel, and was awarded the Medal of Valor (the nation's highest medal for heroism awarded to only 6 people during the war). He reportedly lives in a Galilee hilltop settlement, and is managing director of Frutarom chemical company.
- Yanush ben Gal
Avigdor "Yanush" Ben-Gal, a former Israeli General, commanded the 7th Israeli Brigade during the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and oversaw the defence of Golan Heights under Syrian attack. In late-summer of 1981, ben Gal was replaced as commander of the Northern Command and was replaced by General Amir Drori.
- Efraim Sneh
Efraim Sneh (born 19 September 1944) is an Israeli politician and physician. He is a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party and is the current Deputy Defense Minister. Born in Tel Aviv in 1944, Sneh is the son of Moshe Sneh, who was one of the heads of the Haganah. His father was elected to the first Knesset as a representative of Mapam, before defecting to Maki, the Israeli Communist Party. Sneh served in the Nahal infantry battalion from 1962 to 1964.
- Benny Peled
Benny Peled (1928 - July 13, 2002), born Benjamin Weidenfeld in Tel Aviv, Israel, was the commander of the Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War and Operation Entebbe. He retired with the rank of Aluf (Major General).
- Mohammed Aly Fahmy
Field Marshal Mohammed Aly Fahmy graduated from the Egyptian military Academy in November 1939. He was the commander of the Egyptian Air Defense Command from May 1969 to January 1975 and chief- of - staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces from January 1975 to October 1978. He participated in World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Suez Crisis, the Six-day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War.
- Yossi ben Hanan
Major General (Aluf) Joseph (Yossi) Ben Hanan was born in Jerusalem 1945. His father, Michael Ben Hanan, was a famous public figure in Israel, known among other things- as one of the first live show broadcasters in Kol Israel (the voice of Israel). Michael Ben Hanan was nicknamed "Mar Hitamlut Haboker" (The master of morning exercises), after his daily early morning gym program.
- Albert Mandler
Avraham 'Albert' Mandler was an Israeli general. He was killed by Egyptian artillery fire on 13 October, 1973 during the Yom Kippur War. In the 1967 Six-Day War he was a colonel commanding the 8th Mechanized Infantry Brigade.
- Abdul Munim Wassel
Major General Abdul Munim Wassel was the commander of the Egyptian third army during the Yom Kippur War.
- Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel
General Abd-Al-Minaam Khaleel graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1941. He assumed command of the Egyptian 2nd Army during the Yom Kippur War, replacing Major General Saaduddin Mamun.
- Shai Hermesh
Shai Hermesh (born 23 March 1944) is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset for Kadima. Born in Tel Aviv in 1944, Hermesh spent his military service in the Nahal and the paratroop brigade. With the conclusion of his military service in 1965, he became a member of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, situated on the Gaza Strip border. A year later, in the Six-Day War, Hermesh served as a combat soldier in the paratroop brigade, …
- Zvi Hendel
Zvi Hendel (born October 16, 1949 in Transylvania, Romania) is an Israeli politician. He was elected to the 17th Knesset on National Union's list. He made Aliyah in 1959 and in his military service he served as a Gadna instructor. In his reserve duty he served as part of a reconnaissance unit in the Israeli Artillery Corps and took part in the Yom Kippur War. In 1977 he moved with his family to the moshav of Ganei Tal, part in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
- Keren Tendler
Sgt. Maj. Keren Tendler (died August 12, 2006) was Israel's first female helicopter flight mechanic, and the first female Israeli soldier to die on active duty since the Yom Kippur War. She was killed when her helicopter, a CH-53 Sea Stallion "Yas'ur", was shot down upon lifting off after deploying troops in Lebanon. A fund was established in her name to help other young women become flight mechanics.
- Keith Morrison
Keith Morrison is a veteran broadcast journalist. Since 1995 he has been a correspondent for "Dateline NBC". Morrison was born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada and got his start in 1966 working for the "Saskatoon StarPhoenix" before moving on to radio and then television. He was a reporter or anchor at local stations in Saskatchewan, Vancouver and Toronto.
- Yekutiel Adam
Yekutiel "Kuti" Adam (November 3, 1927 – June 10, 1982) was an Israeli general and former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to Yehuda and Elisheva Adam (formerly Adamov). He was named after his grandfather, who was killed in combat in 1919. His family were Mountain Jews from the Caucusus region. At the age of 15, Yekutiel joined the Haganah. At 20, he became a commander.
- Shulamith Hareven
Shulamith Hareven (1930 - November 25, 2003) was an Israeli author and essayist. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a Zionist family. She immigrated to the Land of Israel with her parents in 1940. At 17 she joined the Haganah, serving as a combat medic in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, in the siege of Jerusalem. She was assigned to establish Israel Army Radio, opening the station's broadcasts in 1950. She was a war correspondent in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War.
- Eyal Ben-Reuven
Aluf Eyal Ben-Reuven is a general in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the Commander of the Military Colleges and Senior Field Commander. He enlisted in the IDF in 1972 as a member of the Armor Corps. Reuven participated in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, fighting both near the Suez Canal and at the Golan Heights. He commanded an armor battalion the 1982 Lebanon War.
- Nicholas Tomalin
Nicholas Osborne Tomalin (30 October 1931 - 17 October, 1973) was a British journalist and writer. Tomalin was the son of Miles Tomalin, a Communist poet and veteran of the Spanish Civil War. He studied English literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. As a student he was President of the Cambridge Union and editor of the prestigious undergraduate "Granta" magazine. He graduated in 1954 and began work as a foreign correspondent for various London-based newspapers.
- Daniel Murphy
Admiral Daniel Joseph Murphy, Sr (died September 21, 2001) was a four-star Admiral in the United States Navy and served in the White House during the Carter and Reagan administrations. Murphy grew up in Brooklyn, and graduated from the University of Maryland and the Naval War College. He joined the Navy in 1943, during his second year at St. John's University in New York, and flew antisubmarine patrols over the North Atlantic during World War II.