Boris Shuster

Boris Shuster was born in 1982 in Soviet Union

Boris Shuster was born in 1982 in the Soviet Union. His family immigrated to Israel in 1991 and lives in Ashkelon. He is married to Sveta and has 3 children.

He studied at the ORT Ashdod naval officers school. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Haifa and completed a master's degree in law at Bar-Ilan University in 2012. He is also a graduate of the Command and Staff College and a brigade commanders course.

He joined the Navy in 2000 and finished the naval officers course in 2002. He served on missile boats, commanded a Dvora patrol boat from 2004, and commanded INS Hetz from 2012 to 2014. He later commanded Flotilla 916 off the Gaza Strip and Flotilla 31 of the missile boat flotilla.

From 2019 to 2021 he commanded the Israeli Naval Academy as a colonel. He then served as IDF attaché in Moscow and handled security contacts with the Russian Defense Ministry after the Russia-Ukraine war began. In 2024 he finished the post and went to study at the National Security College.