Avraham Adan

Avraham Adan
Avraham Adan
	Adan near the Suez Canal on 27 October 1973
Native name	אברהם אדן‎
Nickname(s)	Bren (ברן‎)
Born	5 October 1926; Kfar Giladi, Mandatory Palestine
Died	28 September 2012 (aged 85); Ramat HaSharon, Israel
Allegiance	Israel
Service / branch	Palmach; Israel Defense Forces
Years of service	1943–1948 (Palmach); 1948–1977 (IDF)
Rank	Aluf
Commands	7th Armoured Brigade; Israeli Armoured Corps; 162nd Armoured Division; IDF Southern Command; Military attaché in Washington, D.C.;
Engagements	1947–1949 Palestine war (1947–1949); 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948–1949); Suez Crisis (1956); Six-Day War (1967); Yom Kippur War (1973);
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Avraham "Bren" Adan (Hebrew: אברהם "ברן" אדן‎; (1926-10-05)5 October 1926^[2] – (2012-09-28)28 September 2012) was an Israeli major-general and author. Prior to Israel's independence, he served with the Palmach, an elite formation within the Haganah paramilitary force of the Yishuv community in British Mandatory Palestine. Adan fought under the Haganah and later under the newly formed Israel Defense Forces during the First Arab–Israeli War, and was photographed while raising the Israeli Ink Flag at the site of what is now Eilat to mark the end of the war.^[3] He served with the Israel Defense Forces from 1948 to 1977, and fought in all of the major Arab–Israeli wars that occurred during that period.

^ Tuohy, William (30 August 1990). "Tank Wizard's Advice: Play the Terrain : Military: Israeli general says it is easier to fight from a defensive position". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021. Adan--he is called "Bren," after the Bren gun he carried in the 1948-49 Israeli War of Independence--is 64 now, but he is still on call in case of war.
^ Most sources give his birth year as 1926: (Jerusalem Post; YNetNews; The Independent); but this Ha'aretz article has it as 1925.
^ "General Avraham Adan: Soldier who raised the 'Ink Flag' that signalled". The Independent. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[1] Tuohy, William (30 August 1990). "Tank Wizard's Advice: Play the Terrain : Military: Israeli general says it is easier to fight from a defensive position". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021. Adan--he is called "Bren," after the Bren gun he carried in the 1948-49 Israeli War of Independence--is 64 now, but he is still on call in case of war.

[birth-2] Most sources give his birth year as 1926: (Jerusalem Post; YNetNews; The Independent); but this Ha'aretz article has it as 1925.

[independent.co.uk-3] "General Avraham Adan: Soldier who raised the 'Ink Flag' that signalled". The Independent. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

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