Danny Efroni

Danny Efroni was born in 1958 in Israel

Danny Efroni was born on November 17, 1958, in Israel. He grew up in Tirat Carmel and attended the Dganya school there, then the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa.

He joined the IDF in 1976 and served in Unit 504 of the Intelligence Directorate. He later earned a law degree and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

In 1990 he moved to the Military Advocate General's Corps as a military prosecutor in the West Bank. He returned to Unit 504 in 1993, then rejoined the corps in 1996 and held senior posts, including Chief Military Defense Attorney and, from 2004, Deputy Military Advocate General. He retired in 2009 and worked as a vice president at an American infrastructure company.

In 2011 he returned to the army as Chief Military Advocate General, succeeding Avichai Mandelblit. In this role he ordered an investigation after Operation Pillar of Defense and ruled on incidents from the 2014 fighting in Gaza. Sharon Afek succeeded him in October 2015.

After leaving the army he joined the Institute for National Security Studies and lectures at the Hebrew University law faculty. He lives in Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, is married, and has 3 children.