Avi Dawidowicz

Avi Dawidowicz was born in 1955 in Tel Aviv

Avi Dawidowicz was born in Tel Aviv on August 27, 1955, the younger son of Zalma and Zisman. He attended the Bilu religious elementary school and then Ironi Yud Alef high school in Tel Aviv.

He joined the Combat Engineering Corps in November 1973 and took part in the 1974 fighting on Mount Hermon and in Operation Woodstock. He later served as a platoon commander and training officer at the military engineering school, and left the IDF in May 1977 as a lieutenant.

He joined the Israel Police in June 1977 and held investigations and intelligence posts in Ramla, Petah Tikva and Rishon LeZion. At the national crimes unit he founded the international investigations division and took part in the Bar-On Hebron affair probe in 1997. In 2003 he became head of the internal audit unit, and in 2006 deputy head of Lahav after serving as deputy head of the special team investigating President Moshe Katsav.

He earned a bachelor's degree in 1990 and a master's degree in 1994 in criminology at Bar-Ilan University. He helped found a criminal profiling certificate program and headed it at Ariel University from 2011 to 2018.

He retired on February 29, 2008. In 2014 he volunteered for reserve duty in the IDF internal investigations unit. He is married to Tziona and lives in Rishon LeZion.