Avraham Ben-Shoshan (Hebrew: אברהם בן-שושן; born 1940) was an Aluf in the IDF, and served as the Commander of the Israeli Navy in the years 1985–1989.

Ben-Shoshan was born in Turkey to a Jewish family that made aliyah when he was six.

His family lived in poverty and, at the age of 14, he left his home and started working on a fishing boat.

[1] After the IDF, Ben-Shoshan became a member of the Israeli government under Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ehud Barak.

Ben-Shoshan has a master's degree in history, political science, and in strategy.