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Shaul Mofaz
Israeli military officer and politician
b. 1948age 77Living
An Iranian-born Israeli paratrooper who fought in the Six-Day War, the Yom Kippur War, and the 1976 Entebbe rescue before becoming the IDF's Chief of Staff in 1998. He went on to serve as Defense Minister and later Deputy Prime Minister, and briefly held the role of Acting Prime Minister during a 2009 cabinet reshuffle.