Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

(1944 - )

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak was born in Tel Aviv in 1944, and is married with five children. He studied in a military boarding school; is a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) Command and Staff College, the National Defense College, and a Marine Command and Staff College course in the United States; and holds a degree in general history from Tel Aviv University.

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak joined the IDF’s paratroop brigade in 1962, fulfilled various command positions starting from squad commander and eventually becoming brigade commander. He later passed a reorientation course for the armored corps and served as a commander of both regular and reserve divisions. During the Six-Day War, he served as a paratroopp commander and during the Yom Kippur War as deputy paratroop brigade commander under the command of the late Colonel Uzi Yairi. Following the Peace for Galilee War he commanded the Beirut and Shouf sectors.

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak was twice awarded the Medal of Valor.