Maj. Gen. David Ben Ba'ashat
Aluf David Ben Ba'ashat (b. 1950) is a general in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the commander of the Israeli Navy . Born in Israel, he has received a B.A. in Economics and Business Management from Haifa University , and studied at the US Marine Corps College for a year in the early 1970s. Ben Ba'ashat began his military career as a draftee in 1970, but then volunteered to attend the naval officer's course. Through the 1970s he commanded a number of vessels including a Saar 2 and a Saar 4 missile boat. During the 1980s he moved into the area naval instructional, and from there he continued to advance up the chain of command, becoming the Israeli Navy's Chief of Staff in 2002 and commander in September 2004. Aluf is the term used for general in the Israeli Defence Forces. ...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: ×¦×‘× ×”×”×’× ×” לישר×ל , [Army] Force for the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated with the Hebrew acronym צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces, comprising the Israeli Army, the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Navy. ...
Main operational areas of the Israeli Sea Corps as seen from Space Shuttle STS-40: Mediterranean Sea (north), Gulf of Aqaba (east), Red Sea (south), and Gulf of Suez (west). ...
The University of Haifa (אוניברסיטת חיפה) is a university in Haifa, Israel. ...
The Saar 4 class missile boats were built at the Israel shipyards and based on Israeli Navy designs grounded in accumulated experience derived in the operation of cherburg (Saar 3) class. ...
Palestinian arms smugglers moving equipment by boat from Egypt into the Gaza Strip [1] Palestine (Hebrew: Palestina, Arabic: ‎ Filastīn or Falastīn) is a canonical name for the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east and south. ...
Notes ^ ynetnews.com by Hanan Greenberg, 5/15/06
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