IDF Spokesperson's Unit photographer · CC BY-SA 3.0

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak rose through the Israeli military over three decades, fighting in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War's Battle of the Chinese Farm, and commanding a 1973 raid on a PFLP headquarters in Beirut. As a general he led Operation Solomon in 1991, the airlift that brought roughly 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel, and went on to serve as IDF Chief of Staff. After retiring from the military in 1998 he entered politics, serving as a government minister and later signing the unofficial Geneva Initiative peace accord.