He initially enlisted in the IDF Artillery Corps, before eventually joining the nascent Israeli Air Force, and completed the IAF pilots' course in 1954.

In 1970, he was put in charge of the weapons department in the Israeli Air Force and in 1973 became commander of Hatzor Airbase, which he led during the Yom Kippur War.

It was under his aegis that the IAF carried out Operation Wooden Leg, a raid on the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at Hammam al-Shatt, Tunisia (1,500 miles away from Israel).

[5] In 2007, he headed a public committee appointed by Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz to examine aviation safety.

[6] He was the chair of the academic committee of the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies.