Amos Yarkoni
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A young Captain Amos Yarkoni
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| Native name | عبد الماجد حيدر |
| Born |
1 June 1920 Na'ura, British Mandate for Palestine |
| Died | 7 February 1991 (aged 70) Israel |
| Buried at | Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 Israel
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| Service/branch |
 Israel Defense Forces
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| Years of service | December 1947 - 1969 |
| Rank | Sgan aluf (Lieutenant Colonel) |
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| Awards | Medal of Distinguished Service |
Sgan aluf Amos Yarkoni (Hebrew: עמוס ירקוני) (born 1 June 1920 — died 7 February 1991), born as Abd el-Majid Hidr (Arabic: عبد الماجد حيدر, Hebrew: עבד אל-מג'יד חידר) was an officer in the Israel Defense Forces and one of six Israeli Arabs to have received the IDF's third highest decoration, the Medal of Distinguished Service. He was the first commander of the Shaked Reconnaissance Battalion of Israel's Southern command.
Yarkoni was born Abd el-Majid Hidr (Arabic: عبد الماجد حيدر, Hebrew: עבד אל-מג'יד חידר) in the Bedouin village of Na'ura (east of Afula, in the Gilboa region of northern Israel). His family were Muslim Bedouin of the Mazarib tribe.
In 1936, at the age of 16, he joined a band which sabotaged the Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline), an oil pipeline running from the Iraqi oilfields to Haifa while Palestine was under British Administration (after Israeli independence, the Tapline was redirected to Sidon, Lebanon). Due to an internal disagreement within the band, Abd el-Majid fled to a Jewish area of Palestine, where he was sheltered by Jews. There, he made contacts in the Haganah through Moshe Dayan.
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