Assaf Hefetz

Assaf Hefetz (Hebrew: אסף חפץ‎; born 1944) was commissioner of the Israeli Police.

Assaf Hefetz

Biography

Hefetz was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces in 1962. He volunteered as a paratrooper in the Paratroopers Brigade. He served as a soldier and a squad leader. In 1964 he became an infantry officer after completing Officer Candidate School and returned to the Paratroopers Brigade as a platoon leader in the Brigade's 890 battalion. Hefetz fought in the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition. During the Yom Kippur War he commanded a paratroop force through the battles in the Sinai Peninsula, and afterwards commanded the 202 paratroop battalion.

In 1978, Hefetz was appointed leader of the Israeli Border Police Yamam anti-terrorism unit.[1] Later that year, during the Coastal Road massacre, a hijacked bus was finally stopped by a police roadblock set up at the Glilot Junction near Herzliya. Hefetz arrived at the scene before his unit, and stormed the bus, killing two of the hijackers. Hefetz sustained a shoulder injury during the battle. In 1980, Hefetz was awarded the Israeli Police Medal of Courage for this act.[2][3]

He became general commissioner (commander of the police) in 1994, a position which he held until 1997.

gollark: And the only protection against it is... that your bank might refund you later?
gollark: I mean, with that, you give someone details for payments, and then they can extract arbitrary amounts of money?
gollark: I can go talk to a person human-ishly, and send them some cryptocurrency. It just happens to be over a mechanism which is actually fairly secure, unlike the awful credit card system.
gollark: This is not actually true.
gollark: Unfortunately, people do evilness and you cannot actually prevent this, and just blindly wanting them not to is unhelpful.

References
  1. The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Chapter 3. Ami Pedahzur; Columbia University Press.
  2. Interview with Assaf Hefetz. Maariv. 10.30.1984 (In Hebrew)
  3. Assaf Hefetz: Israeli Police Medal of Courage (In Hebrew)


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