An 80-year-old woman was viciously mugged and beaten for her...

A Central Park mugger picked the wrong little old lady to tussle with.

The feisty 80-year-old granny is a former Israeli army officer who fought off her attacker when he jumped her around noon Friday, minutes after he targeted a younger deaf woman.

“He was a lightweight. His punches were nothing to talk about,” sniffed the elderly Upper West Side woman, who asked not to be identified but detailed the rough encounter Monday.

The woman she was taking her usual daily walk in the green space on the West Drive near 97th Street Transverse at about 12:15 p.m. when she was suddenly grabbed in a chokehold from behind.

“The first thing I thought was someone who knows me and is trying to say hello,” the gray-haired woman said at her home. “Then I realized he was trying to choke me.”

The mugger dragged her off into the woods and shoved her to the ground before snatching her red-cased iPhone that was sticking out from her pocket, police and the woman said.

“He kept saying, ‘Password! Your password!’ ” recalled the tough woman, who refused to give up the digits and fought back.

“I didn’t give him my password, so he punched me a couple of times and he threw me on the ground,” she said. “As he threw me to the ground I put up a fight, I picked up my legs and I tried to kick him.”

The woman said she was “screaming like a mad woman, but nobody was around” and that her yelling eventually scared the thief off.

“He got scared and grabbed the iPhone and ran,” she said.

Luckily for the grandmother, “It didn’t really hurt me physically. I was angry and annoyed.”

Following the scary ordeal, a passer-by called 911 for the woman.

“He barked up the wrong tree…I would say, ‘Shame on him,’ ” the older woman said of her attacker, adding that she walked the same route Sunday in spite of the incident.

Five minutes before assaulting the woman, the same robber targeted a 38-year-old deaf woman who wears hearing aides in both ears as she was preparing her camera to take a picture of a bird in the park.

The crook grabbed her from behind in a chokehold on a pedestrian path near 101st St. and West Drive, police said.

“‘Give me all your money, phone and all your belongings and don’t make a sound,’” the robber said, according to cops.

She told the robber, “I am deaf, and I can’t hear you,” and showed him her hearing aides, cops said.

The thief then had a change of heart.

“I am sorry,” he said before he fled without taking any of her belongings.

Police described the bandit as a man in his 20s. No arrests have been made.