Amnon lipkin shahak biography of mahatma gandhi

Born in January , in Tel Aviv, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak began his military career in During the War, he served as assistant commander of the Parachute Brigade, and he participated in a special unit (sayeret), in which he would remain for six years.

In , he was part of a commando unit—along with Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Dani Yatom—that neutralized Palestinian terrorists who had taken over a Sabena airplane at the Tel Aviv airport with one hundred passengers aboard.

In April , Lipkin-Shahak participated, along with Ehud Barak, in an operation in Beirut in which three Palestinian leaders were killed. Rumors abounded that the commandos' initial objective was the elimination of Yasir Arafat or Ali Hasan al-Salama, both of whom were absent on the night of the raid.

In , Lipkin-Shahak was promoted to the rank of colonel and became director of the "deployment" section for parachute troops at the general staff of the Israel Defense Force (IDF).

Two years later