Doron Almog

Doron Almog was born in 1951 in Rishon LeZion

Doron Almog was born in 1951 in Rishon LeZion as Doron Avrotzky, the eldest of four children. He studied at the military boarding school at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa. He later earned master's degrees in business administration from Tel Aviv University and in international relations from the University of Haifa.

He joined the IDF in 1969 and served in the paratroopers. He led the paratroopers' reconnaissance company in Operation Entebbe and later commanded Shaldag Unit in Operation Moses and the Paratroopers Brigade. From 2000 to 2003 he headed the Southern Command.

In 2005 a British court issued a warrant for his arrest over home demolitions in Gaza. He stayed on his plane in London and returned to Israel, and the warrant was later withdrawn. In 2011 the government appointed him to lead the plan to arrange Bedouin settlement in the Negev.

He married Didi Frida in 1978, and they had 3 children. His son Eran was born with brain damage and died in 2007, and Almog founded the Aleh Negev rehabilitation village, later named Nachalat Eran. He received the Israel Prize in 2016 and became chairman of the Jewish Agency in 2022.