Coresh Barnoor

Coresh Barnoor was born in 1965 in Pahlavi Iran

Barnoor was born in Iran in 1965. He studied at the military boarding school for command in Tel Aviv.

He joined the IDF in 1983 and served in Battalion 890 of the Paratroopers Brigade, fighting in Lebanon. After officers' course he served as a platoon commander and a training company commander.

He joined the Israel Police in 1996 as an investigations officer in the Sharon region, then moved to the national unit for serious and international crime, where he headed the organized crime division. His cases there included the Bank Lemischar embezzlement, suspicions of corruption involving Ariel Sharon and Vladimir Gusinsky, and special teams on Yitzhak Abergil and Assi Abutbul, which led to Abutbul's conviction as a crime organization head.

In 2011 he became head of operational coordination in the Investigations and Intelligence Department. In April 2016 he was promoted to brigadier general and named head of the National Fraud Investigation Unit, where he led the investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until December 2018. In March 2019 he became commander of the National Police Academy.

In 2024 he testified as a witness in the Netanyahu trial, and he retired from the police in early 2025. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in criminology, graduated from the National Security College, and is married with 2 children.