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David "Dado" Elazar (Hebrew: דוד אלעזר; 27 August 1925 – 15 April 1976) was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), serving in that capacity from 1972 to 1974. He was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.
David Elazar (born 1925, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia [now in Bosnia-Herzegovina]—died April 14, 1976, Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel) was an Israeli army commander who was accused of bad judgment and lack of preparedness in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
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Oct 1, 1973 · David Elazar (Dado) was an Israeli soldier. Elazar was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in 1925 and came to Israel in 1940, joining Kibbutz Sha’ar ha-Amakim. In 1946, he became a member of the Palmach and during the War of Independence carried out reconnaissance in Syria.
Then-IDF chief of staff David Elazar, center, and other IDF top officers visit the Sinai Peninsula during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in an undated photograph.
The IDF's ninth Chief of the General Staff: Lt. Gen. David "Dado" Elazar was born in 1925 in Yugoslavia. In 1940, at the age of 15, he moved to Mandatory Palestine.
Jun 11, 2017 · David “Dado” Elazar was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He served in this position from 1972 to 1974. Lt. Gen. Elazar was born in Sarajevo, and made aliyah to pre-State Israel in 1940, as part of the Youth Aliyah program.
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Apr 16, 1976 · TEL AVIV, April 15—Lieut. Gen David Elazar, commander of Israeli forces during the October war of 1973, died today of a heart attack while swimming in a pool near his home here. He was 50...
