Jossi Peled

Jossi Peled

Jossi Peled (also Yossi Peled , Hebrew יוסי פלד, Born January 18, 1941 in Belgium ) is an Israeli politician and former military man.

Life

Jossi Peled was born as Jozef (Jefke) Mendelevich. His parents fled from German-occupied Poland to Belgium, which was also occupied by Germans. Jossi and his sister were given a false identity to a Christian Belgian family as a security. Except for his mother, all relatives were gassed in the Holocaust , the mother was forced into forced labor and was later traumatized . She moved from Europe to Palestine after the war . Peled studied history in Israel at Tel Aviv University .

Peled moved to Kibbutz Negba , became a professional soldier in the Israeli military and was deployed in its armed conflicts. In the 1967 Six-Day War he was company commander , in the subsequent so-called war of attrition between 1968 and 1970 he was battalion commander . In the 1973 Yom Kippur War he was Brigadier General on the Syrian Front in the Golan Heights . After the Lebanon War in 1982 he was from 1986 to 1991 commander of the Israeli North Command with the rank of major general ( Aluf ).

Peled served as CEO of the private television broadcaster Tadiran Telecom in the 1990s and then in the state broadcasting supervision.

In 1996 he joined the conservative party alliance Likud and was elected to the Knesset in the 2009 Israeli parliamentary election. He was a non-portfolio minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's second term .

Web links

• Yossi Peled short bio at MFA Israel (English)
• Michael Borgstede: "I didn't know that I was in danger" Interview in: Die Welt from January 20, 2012