Dror Harish

Dror Harish was born in 1946

Dror Harish was born in Tel Aviv on July 27, 1946, and grew up in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. His parents were Sara Buchman and Yosef Harish, who later became a district judge and the Attorney General. He studied at the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia and joined a flying club at 12.

He completed pilot course 50 as a fighter pilot and joined a Mystère squadron at Tel Nof. He was wounded in the shoulder during the Six-Day War but returned to flying the next day. He later flew Mirage 3 jets in the Attrition War and the Yom Kippur War.

While serving, he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and economics in Beersheba. He left the IDF in 1971 and finished his law studies in 1972. From 1977 he worked for El Al alongside his work as a lawyer, and he retired as a captain in 2013.

In March 1990 he was suspended from commercial flights after a plane on which he was co-pilot came dangerously close to another aircraft over the Atlantic. He now works in entrepreneurship and building projects and lives in a moshav in the Judean Mountains. He is married to Sara and has 3 children.