Yuval Ne'eman
| Yuval Ne'eman | |
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| Date of birth | 14 May 1925 |
| Place of birth | Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine |
| Date of death | 26 April 2006 (aged 80) |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Knessets | 10, 11, 12 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1981–1992 | Tehiya |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1982–1984 | Minister of Science & Development |
| 1990–1992 | Minister of Science & Technology |
| 1990–1992 | Minister of Energy & Infrastructure |
Yuval Ne'eman (Hebrew: יובל נאמן, 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Yuval Ne'eman was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era, graduated from high school at the age of 15, and studied mechanical engineering at the Technion.
At the age of 15, Ne'eman also joined the Haganah. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Ne'eman served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as battalion deputy commander, then as Operations Officer of Tel Aviv, and commander of Givati Brigade.
Later (1952–54) he served as Deputy Commander of Operations Department of General Staff, Commander of the Planning Department of the IDF. In this role, he helped organize the IDF into a reservist-based army, developed the mobilization system, and wrote the first draft of Israel's defense doctrine.
Between 1958 and 1960 Ne'eman was IDF Attaché in Great Britain, where he also studied for a PhD in physics under the supervision of 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Abdus Salam at Imperial College London. In 1961, he was demobilized from the IDF with a rank of Colonel.
In 1981, Ne'eman became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.
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