Politicsאריה ביבי

Aryeh Bibi

Aryeh Bibi is an Israeli police officer and politician who served as commissioner of the Israel Prison Service from 1993 to 1997 and as a Kadima member of the Knesset from 2009 to 2013.

born 1943Commissioner of the Israel Prison ServiceKadima member of the KnessetCommanding police in Yamit evacuation

Born: 28 April 1943, Baghdad
Occupation: politician, prison officer, police officer
Party: Kadima
Rank: Nitzav

Aryeh Bibi was born in 1943 in Baghdad

Aryeh Bibi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1943. His family moved to Israel in 1950 and settled in the Amishav transit camp in Petah Tikva. He later earned a BA in the history of the Jewish people at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

He served in the IDF in the Paratroopers Brigade. He then joined the Israel Police, served in the Border Police, and commanded the Gaza and North Sinai subdistrict, leading the police force during the evacuation of Yamit in 1982. He later commanded the Yarkon region and, from 1989, the Jerusalem district, where the 1990 Temple Mount riots took place during his term.

He headed the police manpower division and was commissioner of the Israel Prison Service from 1993 to 1997. He then chaired the anti-drug authority and the appointed council of Lod.

In 2009 he entered the Knesset for Kadima and founded a lobby for police and prison officers. In October 2012 he moved to Likud, but was not reelected in 2013. From 2017 to the end of 2024 he was director general of the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority.

He lives in Petah Tikva and is married to Helena Bibi, a former senior officer in the police and prison service.