Maj. Gen. Kalman Magen, one of Israel’s youngest commanding officers, was found dead in his command post early today, apparently of a heart attack. He was 45. Gen. Magen was a divisional commander in the Yom Kippur War. His unit crossed the Suez Canal Oct. 18. Born in Vienna, he arrived in Palestine in 1933 and was a member of the underground Irgun Zvai Leumi during the pre-State period. He fought with the Givati Brigade on the Egyptian front during Israel’s War for Independence in 1948, was wounded in 1954 in a retaliation action in Sinai and again in 1969 when he was then a senior commander in the Armored Corps. Gen. Magen was regarded as one of the most promising members of the army’s young officers corps. He served for years as an armored corps commander and as commander of officers training schools. Funeral services are incomplete.
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