Dan Tolkovsky

Dan Tolkowskie ( born 1921 in Tel Aviv, Hebrew דן טולקובסקי ) is a former Israeli Aluf and was from May 1953 to July 1958 Commander of the Israeli Air Force (IAF ).

Tolkowskie was the son of Samuel Tolkowskie, a known Zionist activist, and grandson of Isaac Goldberg; He attended Herzlia Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv in 1936 and joined the Haganah. Tolkowskie began in 1943 with the military service, as the Royal Air Force, a Jewish unit from Palestine to Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) sent to study at a flight school. Tolkowskie was the first in his group, who completed the course, and then served as a fighter pilot and later as an air reconnaissance during the Second World War in Greece.

Due to its flying experience Tolkowskie became a founding member of the Israeli Air Force. He entered initially at the Scherut Avir, the short-lived precursor to the IAF or air armed force of the Haganah, where he assisted in the procurement of modern military equipment from Czechoslovakia. In 1959 he left the army with the rank of major general.

Tolkowskie is married and has three children.