Career
Ben-Shoshan"s family made aliyah from Turkey and settled in Kfar Saba. His family lived in poverty and, at the age of 14, he left his home and started working on a fishing boat. When Ben-Shoshan enlisted in the Navy, he joined the submarine unit, and eventually became the captain of a submarine.
Later on, he served in the missile ship fleet and by the 1980s he became the Commander of the Israeli missile ship fleet.
He was the commander of the missile ship fleet during the First Lebanon War. In 1985, with the rank of Aluf, Ben-Shoshan became the Commander of the Israeli Navy.
In 1989, his term as Commander of the Navy ended and soon afterwards he resigned from the Israel Defense Forces. Ben-Shoshan has a masters degree in history, political science, and in strategy.
