Yaakov Turner

Yaakov Terner (יעקב טרנר, born 1935 in Kfar Yona, Israel) is the former mayor of Beersheba and Israeli general. Terner held the position for ten years, being elected in 1998 and re-elected in 2003. He lost the position in 2008 to his former deputy mayor, Rubik Danilovich. Terner won just 30 percent of the vote versus 60 percent for Danilovich.

Career history
Terner enlisted in the Israeli Air Force in 1953 and retired in 1985 as a Brigadier-General. In the Yom Kippur War he was an F-4 Phantom II pilot, and in the Six-Day War and the War of Attrition, he was the commander of an air combat squadron.

In 1985 he founded the Israeli Air Force Museum in Hatzerim airbase near Beersheba.

After his military service, he was enlisted into the Israel Police, where he became general commissioner (commander of the police) in 1990, a position which he held until 1993.