Avinoam Stolovitch

Avinoam Stolovitch was born in 1974

Stolovitch was born and raised in Tel Aviv. He is the son of Professor Haim Stolovitch, and his brother Eliyahu is the rabbi of the Kfar Vitkin bloc. He studied at the Netiv Meir high school yeshiva and at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva.

He joined the Golani Brigade and its reconnaissance unit, became an officer and fought in southern Lebanon. He later commanded companies in Golani and in the Egoz unit, and became deputy commander of Egoz after the Second Lebanon War. In 2009 he took command of Battalion 13, which stopped an attack at the Karni crossing on the Gaza border.

He served as deputy commander of Golani and then commanded the Golani training base. In Operation Protective Edge he led Golani's reconnaissance battalion after its commander was wounded. In 2014 he was promoted to colonel and given command of the Hermon Brigade, which he left in 2016.

After studying at the National Security College, he was deputy commander of the Gaza Division. From 2018 to 2019 he headed the live fire training center. He left the IDF in 2022. He is married to Moriah and lives in Psagot.