Amos Yadlin

Amos Yadlin was born in 1951 in Hatzerim

Amos Yadlin was born on 20 November 1951 in Kibbutz Hatzerim in the Negev. He is the son of Edah and Aharon Yadlin.

He enlisted in 1970 and became a fighter pilot. He flew in the Yom Kippur War, Operation Opera and the 1982 Lebanon War, and later commanded squadrons and air bases. He studied economics and business administration at Ben-Gurion University and public administration at Harvard University.

In 2002 he became a major general and commander of the IDF Military Colleges. From 2004 to 2006 he was the IDF attaché in the United States. In 2006 he was named head of Military Intelligence, the first Air Force pilot in that post, and he retired in November 2010.

In November 2011 he became head of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, a post he left in 2021. In January 2015 he joined the Zionist Union as its candidate for defense minister. In June 2023 he founded the organization Mind Israel.