Amir Nachumi (Hebrew: אמיר נחומי; born 1945) is a retired Israeli Air Force Brigadier General who, in the course of his career, shot down 14 enemy aircraft, making him one of Israel's top flying aces.

Nachumi flew 50 combat missions on the Ouragan during the War of Attrition and later returned to the IAF flight school as an instructor.

[1][2] In early October 1973 Nachumi was among two F-4 Phantom crews on quick reaction alert duty at Ofir air force base, near Sharm el-Sheikh at the southern tip of the Sinai.

[4] The two Phantom crews (Nachumi/Yossi Yavin and Daniel Shaki/David Regev) were sitting in their aircraft when war broke out at 14:00, spearheaded by an Egyptian aerial strike against Israeli positions in the Sinai.

Radar had detected Egyptian Air Force formations heading for Ofir but the two aircraft were not scrambled yet.

"[5]28 EAF MiG-17s and their MiG-21 escorts had arrived to attack Ofir and had Nachumi not made the decision to scramble, the Phantoms would not have been able to take off from the damaged runway.

[4][5] After the war, all four airmen received Israel's third highest decoration, the Medal of Distinguished Service, for their conduct during the battle.

107 squadron was tasked with attacking the Egyptian airfield at Tanta, but Nachumi and wingman Meir Most were intercepted en route by a pair of MiG-21s from El Mansoura.

[1][7] Over the course of the 1982 Lebanon War, 110 Squadron was credited with 23 aerial kills, including 6 fighters shot down by Nachumi himself, all using the AIM-9L.

[1]Now a 14-kills ace, Nachumi completed his tenure at 110 squadron in April 1983 and transferred to the IAF's Air Intelligence Directorate.

[2] In this capacity Nachumi commanded the air element of Operation Solomon, the 1991 airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

Nachumi flew in an IAF C-130 Hercules to Addis Ababa and personally oversaw various logistic elements of the operation.