"The old bastard"

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Yoshihai Ben-Non (17 December 1924 – 6 June 1994) was the fighters of the Israeli Navy and its sixth commander. He commanded commando units in the late Mandate period and the War of Independence and won the nation of Israel. After the establishment of the state, it was between the establishments of a 13th boat and the first of its commanders. He founded and conducted the company for the study of days and lakes in Israel.

childhood
Ben-Non was born in Haifa for the better and the fat. His mother, a member of the Carol family of the first immigration, was born in the beginning of hope. His father was born in southern Russia and immigrated to Israel at the age of seven. At the age of a year, the family moved to Jerusalem and settled in the neighborhood of the vineyards whose parents were among its founders, and was then an isolated neighborhood in the western city. His childhood and youth passed through him in this neighborhood. As a child, Ben-Non experienced the events of the PA when the Arabs in his neighborhood attacked their Jewish neighbors. The memory of the events left a deep imprint on Ben-Non, and he even claimed it was one of the things that influenced his actions later in his life.

Ben-Non attended the High School in the Palm House, to the days of the High School near the University. During his studies, during the events of 1936-1939 (the Great Arab Uprising) he performed night shoots in a garden neighborhood, in a savvy quarry and the fifth leaf.

State Service on the Way
In 1940, he began training in the framework of the defense, and in 1942, when he graduated, Ben-Non joined the Palmach, the Lumole and the village of Giladi. Ben-Non was sent to participate in the first national class headquarters course in their house Aaron. In the middle of the course, the appendix and hospitalized at the Bilin Hospital. After his release from the hospital, while Ben-Non was established in Jerusalem, he joined the Water Force, and at the end of the restoration he returned to the Palmach force in the village of Giladi. He was released from the Palmach at the end of 1944 and planned to start his studies in the field of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 1945, during his release, Ben-Non met Avraham entitled, who was the commander of the maritime company (Falm) of the Palmach, who persuaded Ben-Non to remain in Palestine and join the naval force, which, in accordance with the B.A. Institute, began to take place at the time to raise the rest of the invasion of Europe. Ben-Non has undergone marine training (Number Commanders Course 4) on the kibbutz Sea Fields, where the maritime base of the company is located. Immediately afterwards, he attended a department headquarters course in Jaberra, which he commanded Yigal Yadin. The course did not come to an end as a result of the operation of the break into a temporary camp, in which elephants were held arrested by the British. White-Non was responsible for the power of forty people who were responsible for maintaining the western fence of the Yugo group, through which the released prisoners were designed to enter.

At the end of 1945, according to Avraham's teaching, Ben-Non established the link to a naval transport that was part of the maritime company. The link operated until the end of 1947 against guard ships and deportation ships operating by the British as part of the unwavering struggle for Israel. Ben-Non continued his maritime training. Among the actions of the link to a naval transport, the attack can be counted in two British guard ships anchored in the Haifa Port in the framework of the railway night. When in August 1946, the British launched an "Elo" operation to expel Israeli elephants to arrest camps in Cyprus Ben-Non and his crew succeeded in harming HMT Empire Rival ships in Haifa Port, and HMT Ocean Vigour in Cyprus. Upon the announcement of the partition plan, the activity of the link was halted against the British and its dissolution.

War of Independence
Ben-Non commanded the port company operating in Haifa. The company was founded after the massacre of the refineries on 30 December 1947, and its goal was to protect the Jewish workers who were a minority in Haifa harbour. Because the British still ruled the port, the company's men secretly held the promise of the Jewish workers and their self-defense.