392:. In 1956, he was the first Israeli officer to study at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Upon his return, he became an instructor at the IDF Command and Staff School. In 1959, he headed the Operations Branch of the General Staff Operations Department, transferring to the Armor Corps in 1962. In the Six-Day War he was appointed governor of East Jerusalem, and then head of the Central Command Staff with the rank of brigadier general. In 1969 he was appointed commander of the Armored Forces in Sinai. During the War of Attrition he was commander of operations at the Suez Canal. In 1970-1973, he served as chief of the
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Lahat was married to Ziva, former director of the
Humanities Library at Tel Aviv University. They had two children, Dan and Avner. He is also survived by his eight grandchildren including, Roan, Noam, Adam, Michaela, Yasmine, Tom, Arielle, and Yehonatan. His son, Dan Lahat, is a Tel Aviv city council
356:. Lahat's nickname “Cheech” dates back to when he played tug-of-war with this friends at the age of eight. “I would yell ‘zieh’ – ‘Pull’ (in German) – to my friends, and they made it into ‘Cheech,’ and it stuck with me to this day," he later recalled. Lahat was a member of
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in 1974–1993, for four consecutive terms. After election on the Likud ticket in 1974, he was re-elected
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in critical condition due to a lung infection. He died on the morning of
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with his family in 1933 after the Nazis came to power. The family settled in
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Shlomo Lahat (R), shows foreign visitors the impact of an Iraqi missile in
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388:. While serving in the IDF, he studied law at
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190:, 1970–1973
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35:Native name
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874:Moti Almoz
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302:שלמה להט
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