Israeli Navy

Israeli Navy חיל הים הישראלי Israeli Sea Corps (ISC)
Flag of the Israeli Navy
Lineup	March 17, 1948
Country	Israel
Armed forces	Israel Defense Forces
Type	Armed forces ( navy )
Strength	9,500
headquarters	Tel Aviv
management
commander	Rear Admiral (Aluf) Eli Sharvit
insignia
Naval war flag
Commander's pennant

The Israeli Navy ( Hebrew חיל הים הישראלי Cheil haJam haJisra'eli , English Israeli Sea Corps , abbreviated ISC ) is the naval force of the Defense Forces of the State of Israel .

assignment

The Navy of Israel ensures the territorial integrity of the sea and provides the naval component of the Israeli defense force in the main areas of operation: the Mediterranean Sea in the west and the Gulf of Aqaba in the south.

See also: General Mission of the Israel Defense Forces

organization

Structure of the Israeli Navy

The fleet command of the Israeli Navy is in Tel Aviv , the Naval Academy in Haifa .

The navy consists of:

• Missile speedboat - flotilla with 13 units (according to local typing corvettes or speedboats )
• Submarine flotilla with five units (six in the course of 2020)
• Patrol boats
• Naval Intelligence Service
• Radar units
• Marinesonderkommando ( Schajetet 13 ; German "13th Flotilla") based in Atlit .
• Underwater response unit (base in Haifa)
• Port security forces

equipment

The official prefix of Israeli ship names is INS ( Israeli Naval Ship ). An overview of the ships and boats of the Israeli Navy can be found in the list of ships of the Israeli Navy .

Corvettes and speedboats

Ship class	origin	photo	Ships	Remarks
Corvettes
Sa'ar-5	United States		INS Eilat INS Lahav INS Hanit	To be replaced by Corvettes of the Sa'ar 6 class .
FK speed boats
Sa'ar-4.5	Israel		INS Romach INS Keshet INS Hetz INS Kidon INS Tarshish INS Yaffo INS Herev INS Sufa	The Kidon , Tarshish and Yaffo were built as Sa'ar-4 class units in the mid-1970s and upgraded in the 1990s.

Submarines

Ship class	origin	photo	Ships	Remarks
Dolphin I	Germany		INS Dolphin INS Leviathan INS Tekuma	Diesel-electric propulsion, the boats of the class are considered nuclear weapons capable.
Dolphin II	Germany		INS Tanin INS Rahav INS Drakon	Fuel cell drive, the Drakon's commissioning planned for early 2020.

Patrol boats

Ship class	origin	photo	Ships	Remarks
Super Dvora Mk.III	Israel		13 units
Super Dvora Mk.II	Israel		4 units
Shaldag	Israel
Dvora	Israel		9 units
Defender	United States
Protector UPS	Israel			Unmanned naval patrol boat
Silver Marlin	Israel			Unmanned naval patrol boat

Support ships

Ship class	origin	photo	Ships	Remarks
Stollergrund	Germany		INS Bat Yam INS Bat Galim	Former test boats of the German Navy

helicopter

There will be five AS helicopters . 565MA Atalef in the 193rd Squadron used by the Navy. These are part of the Air Force , as they are flown, serviced and integrated into their command structure by its personnel.

Armaments project

Sa'ar-6 class model

The largest armaments project of the Israeli Navy are currently four corvettes of the Sa'ar-6 class (INS Magen , INS Oz , INS Atzmaut and INS Nitzachon ) currently under construction , which are to be built at the German Naval Yards in Kiel and are due to arrive from 2019 . Furthermore, in 2020 the submarine INS Drakon , formerly INS Dakar , will be the sixth unit and third boat of the 2nd construction lot of the Dolphin class . Three more boats from a 3rd construction lot are to replace the boats in the 1st construction lot at a later date, which will then be called the Dakar class .

Former weapon systems

Former INS Eilat, British Z-class destroyer

A selection of former Israeli naval weapons systems:

• 2 destroyer British Z-Class: INS Eilat and INS Yaffo, in use 1955-1970.
• Two submarines of the Subtle class : INS Rahav and INS Tanin in use from 1958 to 1972.
• 3 T-Class : INS Dakar , INS Dolphin and INS Leviathan
• 3 Gal class submarines : INS Gal , INS Leviathan and INS Tekuma in use between December 1976 and October 2007.
• 12 speedboats of Sa'ar-1 class a total of 1967 to 1995 in use.
• 8 more speedboats of the Sa'ar-4 class were sold to other countries.

Calls

See the table of operations in the article on the Israel Defense Forces .

Special events were:

• On January 3, 2002, the Karine A , a Palestinian arms ship, was confiscated in international waters of the Red Sea. The ship was supposed to smuggle over 50 tons of weapons and explosives into the Gaza Strip.
• In July 2006, during the Lebanon War , the INS Hanit was hit by a missile launched by Hezbollah . Four sailors died. However, the ship was able to reach Israeli waters independently.
• In November 2009 the motor ship Francop , which belongs to the German shipping company Gerd Bartels, was boarded by a special naval command on the way to Cyprus and brought to an Israeli port. There were about 300 tons of hidden weapons on board (see Francop incident ).
• On May 31, 2010, the Israeli Navy boarded six ships loaded with relief supplies for the Gaza Strip in international waters that wanted to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip ( Ship-to-Gaza incident ).
• On March 15, 2011, the container ship Victoria, managed by the German Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG, was landed around 200 kilometers off the Israeli coast and diverted to Ashdod , where, among other things, mortar shells and six anti-ship missiles of the Nasr type were found in the containers. The armaments were supposed to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip via Egypt (see Victoria incident ).

List of commanders

Ram Rothberg, Commander of the Israel Navy from 2011 to 2016

No.	Surname	Beginning of the term of office	Term expires
20th	Aluf Eli Scharvit	September 27, 2016	-
19th	Aluf Ram Rothberg	October 6, 2011	September 27, 2016
18th	Aluf Eli Marom	October 8, 2007	October 6, 2011
17th	Aluf David Ben Ba'aschat	September 23, 2004	October 8, 2007
16.	Aluf Jedidja Ja'ari	January 2, 2000	September 23, 2004
15th	Aluf Alex Tal	January 1, 1996	January 2, 2000
14th	Aluf Ami Ajalon	July 7, 1992	January 1, 1996
13.	Aluf Micha Ram	February 1, 1989	July 7, 1992
12.	Aluf Avraham Ben-Shoshan	January 31, 1985	February 1, 1989
11.	Aluf Ze'ev Almog	January 12, 1979	January 31, 1985
10.	Aluf Michael Barkai	23rd September 1976	January 12, 1979
09.	Aluf Benjamin Telem	1st September 1972	23rd September 1976
08th.	Aluf Avraham Botzer	1st September 1968	1st September 1972
07th	Aluf Schlomo Arel	January 1, 1966	1st September 1968
06th	Aluf Johai Ben-Nun	March 1, 1960	January 1, 1966
05.	Aluf Shmuel Tankus	July 1, 1954	January 1, 1960
04th	Aluf Mordechai Limon	December 14, 1951	July 1, 1954
03.	Aluf Schlomo Shamir	May 16, 1949	December 14, 1950
02.	Aluf Paul Shulman	1949	1949
01.	Gershon Zak	1948	1949
Source: Jewish Virtual Library

Ranks and Rank Badges

Officers

Rank group	Flag officers			Staff officers			Subaltern officers
badge
Rank	רב-אלוף (Rav-Aluf) 1	אלוף ( aluminum )	תת-אלוף (Tat-Aluf)	אלוף משנה (Aluf-Mishne)	סגן אלוף (Sgan-Aluf)	רב סרן (Rav- Sera )	סרן (serums)	סגן (blessing)	סגן-משנה (blessing-mishne)
Rank (Bundeswehr)	Lieutenant General	Rear admiral	Flotilla admiral	Sea captain	Frigate captain	Corvette Captain	Lieutenant captain	First lieutenant at sea	Lieutenant at sea
NATO rank code	OF-8	OF-7	OF-6	OF-5	OF-4	OF-3	OF-2	OF-1
1 The Chief of the General Staff (Hebrew רמטכ״ל - Ramatkal) is the only one with the rank of Rav-Aluf.

NCOs and men

Rank group	NCOs					Teams
badge										no badge
Rank	רב נגד (Rav-Nagad)	רב סמל בכיר (Rav-Samal Bachir)	רב סמל מתקדם (Rav-Samal Mitkadem)	רב סמל ראשון (Rav-Samal Rishon)	רב סמל (Rav-Samal)	סמל ראשון (Samal Rishon)	סמל (Samal)	רב טוראי (Rav-Tua'i)	טוראי ראשון (Turaʾi Rishon)	טוראי (Tura'i)
Rank (Bundeswehr)	Chief of Staff		Staff Captain	Chief Boatswain	Captain / Boatswain	Chief Mate / Mate	Oberstabsgefreiter / Stabsgefreiter	Hauptgefreiter / Obergefreiter	Private	sailor
NATO rank code	OR-9		OR-8	OR-7	OR-6	OR-5	OR-4	OR-3	OR-2	OR-1

See also

• List of naval forces

literature

• Klaus Mommsen: Chel ha'yam: 60 years of the Israeli Navy. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7637-6281-1 .

Web links

Commons : Israel Navy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Israel Defense Forces (English)
• Israeli Navy at isayeret.com (English)
• Israeli Navy at hazegray.org (English)
• Armed forces overview of the Israeli armed forces at GlobalDefence.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Israel's attorney general investigates the purchase of German submarines. In: Spiegel Online . kry / dpa / AFP , November 23, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Craig Hoyle: World Air Force 2019. (PDF) Flight International, December 8, 2018, accessed February 15, 2019 . 
3. ^ Israel names four new German-built Sa'ar 6 corvettes. In: navaltoday.com. April 23, 2018, accessed February 15, 2019 . 
4. ^ Israel changes name of sixth Dolphin submarine. In: navaltoday.com. January 11, 2019, accessed February 15, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Germany approves sale of new submarines to Israel: report. In: navaltoday.com. October 23, 2017, accessed February 15, 2019 . 
6. ↑ naval-technology.com
7. ↑ Arms delivery: Hezbollah and Iran want nothing to do with the smuggling ship. In: Spiegel Online . November 5, 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2009 . 
8. ↑ Peter Münch and Paul Anton Krüger: "Arms delivery: With 3,000 rockets through the Red Sea". (No longer available online.) In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 6, 2009, archived from the original on November 8, 2009 ; Retrieved November 9, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Israeli Navy: Navy Commanders-in-Chief. In: JewishVirtualLibrary.org. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .