Edmond Wilhelm Brillant

Brillant graduated from the August Witkowski Gymnasium (high school[6]) in Jaroslaw in 1934 and started his MD studies.

He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1936 aboard Polonia from Port of Constanţa with a Hebrew Technion Certificate and resided in Haifa.

Brillant started his mechanical engineering studies in the Hebrew Technion, and in 1937 he joined the Hagana Flight Club in "Kfar Yeladim" at Jezreel Valley as an instructor.

There, Brillant started to learn salvage work, shallow water diving, diesel engines and other naval professions that assisted him later on in his Israeli Navy career.

Brillant's commanding officers at HMS Massawa recommended him to be commissioned[5] and assisted him to reach aviator trainings of the RN Fleet Air Arm (FAA) in 1944.

[5] Brillant served as a naval Staff (military) officer, and during his service he was the operational planner of the 1956 sea battle in which the Egyptian destroyer Ibrahim el Awal was captured.

After then, he moved to Toulon to manage the building of three freight ships: Keshet (Bow), Noga (Venus) and Mazal (Luck).

[5] In 1963, Brillant asked the IDF attaché in Paris for permission to retire from the Navy, even though they requested him to continue his service for the vital naval operation known as the Cherbourg Project.

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant at Port Said , Egypt, in 1942
PPRD Railway Company C of Hagana Haifa, 1939 – Edmond Brillant is in the first row on the right, with a pistol
Edmond Brillant and his wife Rosita Segal
SS Shalom Project, Chantiers de l'Atlantique, 1963 – Edmond Brillant at the left