Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
| Amnon Lipkin-Shahak | |
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| Minister of Transportation | |
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In office 5 August 1999 – 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Ehud Barak |
| Preceded by | Ehud Barak |
| Succeeded by | Rehavam Ze'evi |
| Minister of Tourism | |
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In office 11 October 2000 – 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Ehud Barak |
| Preceded by | Yitzhak Mordechai |
| Succeeded by | Efraim Sneh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 March 1944 Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | 19 December 2012 (aged 68) Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, Jerusalem |
| Resting place | Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery, Tel Aviv |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Political party | Labor |
| Other political affiliations |
Center Party, New Way |
| Spouse(s) | Tali Lipkin-Shahak |
| Children | 5 |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University |
| Profession | Military officer |
| Awards | Medal of Courage (2) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Israel
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| Service/branch |
 Israel Defense Forces
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| Years of service | 1962–1998 |
| Rank |
 Rav Aluf (Lieutenant General)
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| Unit | Paratroopers Brigade, Central Command |
| Commands | Duchifat Unit (Sayeret), Nahal Airborne Battalion, Deputy Commander of the Paratroopers Brigade, Reservist Paratroopers Brigade, Paratroopers Brigade, A reservist armored division, Steel Formation, Central Command, Intelligence, Deputy Chief of General Staff, Chief of General Staff |
| Battles/wars | Six Day War, Operation Inferno, War of Attrition, Operation Spring of Youth, Yom Kippur War, First Lebanon War, First Intifada |
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (Hebrew: אמנון ליפקין-שחק; March 18, 1944 – December 19, 2012) was an Israeli military officer and politician. He served as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, as a Member of the Knesset, and as Minister of Transportation and Tourism.
Lipkin-Shahak was the grandson of Yitzhak Lipkin, an early pioneer to Palestine and businessman who financed the construction of the Ohel Shlomo and Shaarei Yerushalayim courtyard neighborhoods on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem at the end of the 19th century. Lipkin-Shahak was married to journalist Tali Lipkin-Shahak and had five children. He earned a B.A. in general history from Tel Aviv University.
In 1994, while serving as Deputy Chief of Staff, he said in an interview that four years earlier he was diagnosed with leukemia, but had since recovered. When it was discovered he had been serving as Director of Military Intelligence, and while battling it, then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin allowed him to travel abroad for medical consultations.
On 19 December 2012, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak died in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, after a long battle with cancer.
After finishing his studies at the military boarding school in Haifa in 1962, he enlisted in the Paratroopers Brigade, and served as soldier and an infantry officer in the 890 battalion of the brigade. In 1965, he became a company commander in the newly established 202nd battalion of the brigade. As a company commander, he participated in reprisal operations preceding the Six Day War. During the war, he served as acting deputy battalion commander. After the war, he took command of the Duchifat unit (Sayeret) of the brigade and participated in Operation Inferno, where he was awarded the Medal of Courage for "his leadership and courage under fire."
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