Moshe Arens (born 1925) was an aeronautical engineer who became a leading Israeli statesman, serving as ambassador, minister without portfolio, and defense minister.

Moshe Arens was born in December 1925 in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. His mother was a dentist and his father a businessman. In 1939 he immigrated with his family to the United States where he graduated from high school in New York City and served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. He secured a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but went to Israel at the outbreak of its 1948 war of independence and served in the Irgun Zvai Leumi under the overall leadership led by Menachem Begin. After the war he settled in Mevo Betar but returned to the United States in 1951 to study at the California Institute of Technology where he received an M.A. degree in aeronautical engineering...