- Yedidya Ya'ari
Major General Yedidya Ya'ari ( _he. ידידיה יערי, born
30 June 1947 ) was the commander of theIsraeli Navy . He was succeeded byDavid Ben Ba'ashat .In July 1969, as a
commando inShayetet 13 , he was badly wounded and mistakenly declared dead duringOperation Bulmus 6 - the assault on fortifiedGreen Island, Egypt , in theGulf of Suez (jointly withSayeret Matkal ).After retiring from active army service, Ya'ari worked as an assistant cameraman for three years at Herzliya Studios. During the
Yom Kippur war he re-joined the IDF.Ya'ari is the grandson of
Meir Ya'ari , former leader of theMapam party. He is the father of three and lives in Merhavia.
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