What is Amos Lapidot?
[[File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - P.M. Peres in a Lavi Fighter (cropped).jpg|right|210px]] [[Aluf]] '''Amos Lapidot''' (1934 &ndash; 20 November 2019) was an Israeli fighter pilot. He was the tenth Commander of the [[Israeli Air Force]], a position he held from 1982 to 1987. Lapidot was born in [[Kfar Saba]], [[Mandatory Palestine]] (now [[Israel]]). From 1998 to 2001 he was the President of [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Zohar Blumenkrantz |url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.1553472 |script-title=he:עמוס לפידות: המצב בשמי המדינה - מסוכן |language=he |trans-title=Amos Lapidot: The situation in the country - dangerous |newspaper=[[Haaretz]] |date=August 16, 2007 |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref> Lapidot died on 20 November 2019 in [[Haifa]], Israel at the age of 85.<ref>[https://www.haaretz.co.il/amp/news/politics/.premium-1.8157165 מפקד חיל האוויר לשעבר עמוס לפידות מת בגיל 85] {{in lang|he}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lapidot, Amos}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Israeli military people]] [[Category:Israeli educators]]