Danny Zamir

Danny Zamir was born in 1962 in Mefalsim

Zamir was born in 1962 on Kibbutz Mefalsim to parents from Argentina. In high school he left the kibbutz school and moved to a commune in Sderot, where he finished his matriculation. He also led youth groups in the Working and Studying Youth movement.

He enlisted in the IDF in November 1981 and served in the paratroopers, rising to company commander. He fought in the First Lebanon War and was wounded in a training accident, which left him with severe hearing loss.

In 1990, as a reserve company commander, he refused to command an operation at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus and was sentenced to 30 days in military prison. He later founded the movement The Left for the Golan and chaired a kibbutz group that challenged the banks over kibbutz debts. He earned law degrees from Tel Aviv University in 1995 and 2021.

In 1998 he founded the Rabin pre-military academy and headed it until 2014. He drafted the Pre-Military Academies Law of 2008 and co-founded the Council of Pre-Military Academies, serving as its director general from 2014. In October 2022 he became director of the Yigal Allon educational center.