Dan Biton

Dan Biton was born in 1960 in Israel

Dan Biton was born on December 19, 1960, in Kfar Saba. He attended the Bar-Ilan religious school, though his family was not religious. The death of an uncle who served in the Armored Corps during the Yom Kippur War led him to join that corps.

He holds a bachelor's degree in history from Tel Aviv University and a master's degree in political science from the University of Haifa. He graduated from the Command and Staff College in 1986 and the National Security College in 1995.

Biton joined the Armored Corps in 1979 and fought in the First Lebanon War. He later commanded the 7th Brigade, the Etgar and Sinai formations, and the Ground Forces Training Center. In 2007 he became an Aluf and head of the Technological and Logistics Directorate, where he applied lessons of the Second Lebanon War.

He left the IDF in January 2013. From 2013 to 2022 he was an outside director at Ashot Ashkelon, and in 2020 he joined the Bitchonistim movement. He is married and lives in Rosh HaAyin.