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Yitzhak Mordechai, MK
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Yitzhak Mordechai was born in 1944, in Iraq. He immigrated to Israel at
the age of five.
He graduated the Staff and Command Colleges in Israel and in
Camberley, England. In addition, he holds a B.A. in history from Tel-Aviv University. He also studied political science at Haifa University.
Mordechai served as a career officer in the IDF for 33 years (1962-95), holding many command and staff positions, among them Head of the Training Department, and O.C. of the Northern, Central and Southern Commands. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, as commander of a paratroop battalion on the Suez Canal front, he was awarded the Medal of Valor. He retired from IDF service in October 1995 with the rank of Major General.
Joining the Likud party after his retirement from the army, he was elected to the Knesset in May 1996.
Yitzhak Mordechai served as Minister of Defense from June 1996 until January 1999.
He was re-elected to the 15th Knesset in May 1999 as head of the new Center Party.
He served as Minister of Transport and Deputy Prime Minister from July 1999 until his resignation in May 2000.
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