Amos Lapidot

Aluf Amos Lapidot (1934 – 20 November 2019) was an Israeli fighter pilot. He was the tenth Commander of the Israeli Air Force, a position he held from 1982 to 1987. Lapidot was born in Kfar Saba, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel). From 1998 to 2001 he was the President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Lapidot died on 20 November 2019 in Haifa, Israel at the age of 85.