Aharon Haliva

Aharon Haliva was born in 1967 in Haifa

Haliva was born on October 12, 1967, in Haifa, to parents who came from Meknes in Morocco. He grew up in Haifa and went to the Alliance high school there.

He volunteered for the Paratroopers Brigade and served in the 202nd Battalion. He became an infantry officer and later commanded the battalion in South Lebanon and during the Second Intifada.

He went on to command the 55th Brigade, the Efraim Brigade, the Officers' School and the Paratroopers Brigade. In 2011 he became a brigadier general and took command of a paratroopers division. From 2014 to 2016 he headed the operations division during Operation Protective Edge.

In 2016 he was promoted to major general and led the Technological and Logistics Directorate, then the Operations Directorate from 2018. He became head of Military Intelligence on October 5, 2021. After the October 7 attack he wrote to his soldiers that he bore full responsibility for the failure to warn.

He asked to step down on April 22, 2024, and called for a state commission of inquiry. He holds degrees in social sciences from Bar-Ilan University and the University of Haifa. He lives in north Tel Aviv, is married for the second time and has 5 children.