israel tal

Israel Tal, Israel Defense Force general known for his knowledge of tank warfare. Tal was a brilliant armor tactician and as an armored-division commander he implented his tactics very successfully and achieved great victories. Tal was armored-division commander during the Sinai War, the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War in the southern front of Sinai Peninsula. The Israeli government decided in 1970 that it needed an indigenous tank-building capacity. General Israel Tal led a development team which took into consideration Israel's unique battlefield characteristics and lessons learned from previous wars, and began the development and building of Israel's Merkava tank. Israel Tal is considered among the five greatest armor commanders in history and his picture appears in Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor "Wall of Greatest Armor Commanders" along with Moshe Peled (also Israeli), American George S. Patton and Creighton Abrams and German field-marshal Erwin Rommel.

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