Moshe Melnik

Moshe Marom-Melnik (מֹשֶׁה מָרוֹם-מֶלְנִיק, born 1946) is a retired Israeli Air Force Brigadier General who in the course of his career shot down 9 enemy aircraft, making him one of Israel's flying aces. In 1979 he became the first pilot in history to shoot down an enemy plane with the F-15 Eagle. He scored 5 aerial kills in the F-4 Phantom II during the Yom Kippur War and participated in Operation Opera, the 1981 raid that destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor. He later scored additional 3 aerial kills with the F-15 Eagle in fighting over Lebanon