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Shmuel Gonen

Shmuel Gonen
Nickname(s)'Gorodish'
Born1930 (1930)
Wilno, Wilno Voivodeship, Poland
(now Vilnius, Lithuania)
Died3 September 1991(1991-09-03) (aged 60–61)
Milan, Italy
AllegiancePalmach
Israel Defense Forces
Years of service1944–1976
RankMajor General
Commands82nd Battalion
7th Armored Brigade
Training Division
Southern Command
Solomon Region, Sinai
Battles / wars1948 Arab-Israeli War
Suez Crisis
Six-Day War
War of Attrition
Yom Kippur War
Awards Medal of Courage

Shmuel "Gorodish" Gonen (Hebrew: שמואל גונן; 14 December 1930 – 30 September 1991) was a Polish-born Israeli general and Chief of the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War.


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