Background
He was born in Mandatory Palestine as the youngest son of an immigrant family from Bender (Bessarabia).
He was born in Mandatory Palestine as the youngest son of an immigrant family from Bender (Bessarabia).
University of London.
At the age of fifteen, he served in the Haganah and Palmach. In 1953, Davidi volunteered for the new Israel Defense Forces Paratroopers Brigade as a company commander. The next year, the unit was very active in operations and other dangerous missions behind enemy lines.
In the Sinai Campaign, Davidi, as Lieutenant-Colonel and regimental commander, played a decisive role in the battle of Mitla Pass.
From 1965 to 1968, as a colonel, he was the first commander of the Israel Defense Forces Paratrooper and Infantry Corps. During the 1967 Six Day War, Davidi commanded the decisive actions to capture Sharm-el-Sheik.
When Raful Eitan was wounded in action, Davidi led his paratroopers to the Suez Canal. In 1970 he retired as Brigadier from active military service and spent three years at the University of London earning his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. He focused on the cultural problems of Chinese minorities.
Davidi began teaching geography at Tel Aviv University in 1974.
Three years later, he moved to the Golan Heights as Director of Community and Cultural Activities of the Golan and Jordan Valley. In the summer of 1982, during the 1982 Lebanon War, Davidi founded the Sar-El Israel Defense Forces volunteer program which flourishes today with 5,000 world-wide volunteers a year. Davidi, who lived in Ramat Gan, had three children, 11 grandchildren.
Brigade
General (ret) Doctor Aharon Davidi died on February 11, 2012.
In 2010, Davidi won the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism.