(1926-10-05)5 October 1926 Kfar Giladi, Mandatory Palestine
Died
28 September 2012(2012-09-28) (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 held
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)
Signature
Adan (seen mounted on the flagpole) raising the Ink Flag in present-day Eilat at the end of the First Arab–Israeli War in March 1949
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.
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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.
Avraham "Bren" Adan (Hebrew: אברהם "ברן" אדן; (1926-10-05)5 October 1926 – (2012-09-28)28 September 2012) was an Israeli major-general and author. Prior...
white sheet inscribed with ink was raised by Captain (later General) AvrahamAdan, company commander of the 8th Battalion of the Negev Brigade. The improvised...
city's defense force. On October 23, division commander Major-General AvrahamAdan had three armored brigades and a makeshift infantry brigade made up of...
them onto the defensive. This battle is a key turning point in the war. AvrahamAdan, On the Banks of the Suez, Presidio Press (Reprint edition), 1991. Elyashiv...
the Armored Forces Command under Major General AvrahamAdan and the Israel Navy under Rear Admiral Avraham Botzer. A dedicated task force was set up for...
canal. The 162nd and 252nd Armored Divisions, commanded by Generals AvrahamAdan and Kalman Magen, respectively, would then cross through the breach to...
and submachine guns, two light machine guns and one 52 mm (2") mortar. AvrahamAdan, then a commander of a mobile company in the Negev Brigade's 8th Battalion...
forces took part and the first battle waged by the IDF's 162 Division. AvrahamAdan,On both sides of the suez, Jerusalem: idanim, 1979 Heitan Haber, Zeev...
Peninsula. The town was deserted following the Six-Day War in 1967. AvrahamAdan tried to capture the city but it failed, it cost the Israeli Defence...
Adan's advance command post, Gonen noted that "Sharon has disappointed us" and handed Adan the task of moving the pontoon bridge to the canal. Adan was...
his forces posed by the IDF breakthrough at al-Dayyiqa. Led by Colonel AvrahamAdan, an IDF force entered the al-Dayyiqa and at dawn on 31 October attacked...
for Britain during the war) and formed the "Lehi" (Stern Gang), led by Avraham Stern. In 1942, the USSR released the Revisionist Zionist leader Menachem...
Yigal Allon. Others with close ties were David Elazar, Yitzhak Hofi, AvrahamAdan and Yitzhak Rabin. In 1946 the Ahdut HaAvoda Movement merged with Poale...
Weapons in Modern Times. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. ISBN 978-93-86019-83-7. AvrahamAdan, On Both Banks of the Suez, Jerusalem, 1979, p. 284 Anwar Sadat, the...
2010 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (b. 1928) 2012 – AvrahamAdan, Israeli general (b. 1926) 2012 – Chris Economaki, American journalist...
Nickel Grass) did the armor break out and show its potential; General AvrahamAdan's armor broke through the Egyptian lines, crossed the Suez Canal and enveloped...
lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2015) 1926 – AvrahamAdan, Israeli general (d. 2012) 1926 – Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer...
Campaign Magazine #102, March-April 1982 On the Banks of the Suez, by AvrahamAdan, Presidio Press, 1991 "Across Suez/Go to Origins!", by Rich Erwin, in...
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