- Yekutiel Adam
Infobox Military Person
name= Yekutiel Adam
lived= November 3, 1927 – June 10, 1982
caption=
nickname= Kuti
placeofbirth=Tel Aviv, Israel
placeofdeath= Beaufort Castle, southernLebanon
allegiance= Israel
branch=Haganah ,Israel Defense Forces
serviceyears= 1942 - 1982
rank= Major General
unit=
commands=Golani Brigade ,Israeli Southern Command
battles=1948 Arab-Israeli War ,Six-Day War ,1982 Lebanon War ,Operation Thunderbolt (commander, not on the ground)
awards=
relations= Major GeneralUdi Adam (son)
laterwork= Appointed head of theMossad but died before taking officeYekutiel "Kuti" Adam ( _he. יקותיאל "קותי" אדם) (
November 3 ,1927 –June 10 ,1982 ) was anIsrael igeneral and former Deputy Chief of Staff of theIsraeli Defence Forces .He was born in
Tel Aviv, Israel to Yehuda and Elisheva Adam (formerly Adamov). He was named after his grandfather, who was killed in combat in 1919. His family wereMountain Jews from theCaucasus region.At the age of 15, Yekutiel joined the
Haganah . At 20, he became a commander.On
May 1 ,1948 , he was one of the commanders who captured the Palestinian village Salame, to the south of Tel Aviv. He later joined an elite Haganah unit that conducted raids into enemy territory.In March, 1950, Kuti married and built a house in Tel Aviv. At that time, he became an officer in the IDF, with the rank of
lieutenant . Kuti rose quickly through the ranks. In 1952, he became a captain in theGivati Brigade . Then he went on to command the Be'er Sheva bloc as a lieutenant colonel.He went on to study in the war academy in France in 1964-66 and returned to assume the rank of colonel. In the
Six-Day War , he served underAriel Sharon , proving his worth. Following the war, he became commander of theGolani Brigade . The Golani Brigade was responsible for keeping the peace in the north during theWar of Attrition . During this time, Kuti was promoted to brigadier general and served as the vice commander of the IDF's Northern Command until the end of theYom Kippur War .He was the commander of the "Operation Thunderball" raid at Entebbe airport [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe#The_raid]
In 1974, Kuti was moved to the Sinai where he became a major general and eventually went on to head the Southern Command.
In 1978, he went to the
United States to study and returned to become the Deputy Chief of Staff, underRafael Eitan , and head of the Directorate of Operations.In 1982, Kuti went to the USA again to study, this time in Berkeley, but came back to Israel after Prime Minister
Menachem Begin announced Kuti's appointment to as head of theMossad , in relacement ofYitzhak Hofi . Yekutiel Adam was killed in action at Beaufort Castle, Lebanon in 1982.Yekutiel Adam was buried in Kiryat Shaul cemetery, Tel Aviv. A street was named after him in
Ashkelon , and a main road in North Jerusalem. The Israeli Institute of Technology has named the Adam Yekutiel soil-machine laboratory after him. [http://www.technion.ac.il/technion/agr/facility/facility.html]His son
Udi Adam has followed in his father's footsteps becoming aMajor General in theIsrael Defense Forces and later was appointed commander of the Northern command.References
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Michael Oren [http://www.michaeloren.com 6 Days of War] ,(Oxford, 2002), ISBN 0-345-45912-4, pp. 182, 212.External links
* [http://www.izkor.gov.il/izkor86.asp?t=98810 Biography] at the Israeli government's official memorial website he icon
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