Avraham Yoffe
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| Date of birth | 25 October 1913 |
| Place of birth | Yavne'el, Turkish Palestine |
| Date of death | 11 April 1983 (aged 69) |
| Knessets | 8 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1974–1977 | Likud |
Avraham Yoffe (Hebrew: אברהם יפה, born 25 October 1913, died 11 April 1983) was an Israeli general during the Six-Day War. He later entered politics, and served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1974 and 1977.
Born in Yavne'el during the era when the Ottoman Empire still controlled Palestine, Yoffe attended the Mikveh Yisrael agricultural school.
At the age of 16 he joined the Haganah. In 1936, Yoffe had joined the Special Night Squads, a joint British-Jewish counter-insurgency unit established by Orde Charles Wingate. Yoffe served as a squad leader in one of the squads, acting as Lt. Michael Grove second in command.
During World War II he served as a captain in the British Artillery Corps from 1940 until 1944.
During the 1948 war he was a battalion commander in the Golani brigade. On 12 May his battalion captured Beisan during Operation Gideon.
During the Suez Crisis he commanded Brigade 9 of the IDF. Between 1957 and 1958 he headed the training department and was commander of the officers' school. In 1958 he was appointed commander of the Southern Command, and in 1962 switched to the Northern Command. After being demobilised in 1964, he was recalled to service during the Six-Day War.
He commanded a troop division in Egypt during the attack on the Sinai Peninsula, through Wadi Haroudin, an area impassable to the Israeli tanks. His army captured the Bir-Lafhan junction, effectively preventing the Egyptian army from calling for reinforcements.
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