David Ben Ba'ashat

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Aluf David Ben Ba'ashat (b. 1950) is a general in the Israel Defense Forces and currently the commander of the Israeli Navy. Born in Israel, he has received a B.A. in Economics and Business Management from Haifa University, and studied at the US Marine Corps College for a year in the early 1970s. Ben Ba'ashat began his military career as a draftee in 1970, but then volunteered to attend the naval officer's course. Through the 1970s he commanded a number of vessels including a Saar 2 and a Saar 4 missile boat. During the 1980s he moved into the area naval instructional, and from there he continued to advance up the chain of command, becoming the Israeli Navy's Chief of Staff in 2002 and commander in September 2004.

As Naval Commander, Ben Ba'ahsat has recently had to deal with Palestinian arms smugglers moving equipment by boat from Egypt into the Gaza Strip["Navy: Easier for terrorists to smuggle arms by sea". ynetnews.com by Hanan Greenberg, 5/15/06].

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