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Jean Njeim
5th Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces
In office 7 January 1970 – 25 Juli 1971
Preceded by	Emile Boustany
Succeeded by	Iskandar Ghanem
Personal details
Born	1915 Kfartyeh-Caza, Keserwan, Ottoman Empire
Died	24 July 1971 (aged 55–56)
Military service
Allegiance	Lebanon
Branch/service	Lebanese Army
Rank	General
Battles/wars	1948 Israeli-Arab War 1958 Lebanon Crisis Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon

Jean Njeim (Arabic: جان آغا نجيم) (1915 – 24 July 1971) was a Lebanese Army general commander. He was born in Kfartyeh-Caza, Keserwan, Ottoman Empire in 1915. He entered the Military Academy at Homs as a cadet officer in 1933. He was promoted to colonel in 1959 and to brigadier general in 1965 and to general in 1967. Njeim was appointed commander of the Lebanese Army on 7 January 1970, replacing Emile Bustani who had been removed from the post. Njeim opposed to the expansion of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon. He was in office until his death in a helicopter crash on 24 July 1971. He was succeeded by Iskandar Ghanem as commander of the Lebanese Army.

References

1. Lebanese Army website - Biography of General Jean Njeim
2. "Chronology November 16, 1969-February 15, 1970". Middle East Journal. 24 (2): 193. Spring 1970. JSTOR 4324584.
3. Antoine Trad (2018). "The Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Framework Applied to Analyze the Historically Recent Rise and the 1975 Fall of the Lebanese Business Ecosystem". In Esther Akumbo Nyam; Asiru Tunde (eds.). Impacts of Violent Conflicts on Resource Control and Sustainability. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-5225-5988-7.
4. ^ "Funeral of Lebanese Army Commander Killed In Helicopter Crash. 1971". Pathé News. Reuters. Retrieved 15 July 2022.

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v t e Commanders of the Lebanese Armed Forces
Fuad Chehab (1945–58) Toufic Salem (1958–59) Adel Shehab (1959–65) Emile Boustany (1965–70) Jean Njeim (1970–71) Iskandar Ghanem (1971–75) Hanna Saïd (1975–77) Victor Khoury (1977–82) Ibrahim Tannous (1982–84) Michel Aoun (1984–89) Émile Lahoud (1989–98) Michel Suleiman (1998–2008) Jean Kahwaji (2008–17) Joseph Aoun (2017–)

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