Amos Yakov

Amos Yakov was born in 1962 in Sdei Trumot

Amos Yakov was born in 1962 in the moshav of Sdei Trumot. He attended elementary school there and finished high school at the Himelfarb school in Jerusalem.

He joined the IDF in 1980 in the Golani Brigade and fought in the First Lebanon War during his officers course. He later helped rebuild the Givati Brigade and served as a deputy battalion commander in Rafah before leaving the army.

In 1988 he joined the Border Police and commanded units in the north, Hebron and Nablus. He was deputy commander of the seam zone sector and fought in a battle at Kibbutz Gadish in 2003, for which he received the Israel Police medal of courage. He commanded Border Police forces in the north during the 2005 disengagement and the Second Lebanon War.

He led the Jerusalem Border Police district from 2007 and the Border Police training base from 2008 to 2011. In 2011 he became a major general and commander of the Judea and Samaria police district. In 2012 he became the 14th commander of the Border Police.

In February 2016 he was appointed commander of the Coastal District and ordered a wide evacuation during the 2016 Haifa fire. He ended his post in December 2017 and retired from the police. He is married to Dorit and has 3 children.