Eival Gilady

Eival Gilady was born in 1957 in Israel

Eival Gilady was born in 1957 and grew up in Haifa. He enlisted in the IDF in 1975 and volunteered for pilot training. A year later he left the course and moved to the Artillery Corps.

He served as an artillery officer and commanded Battalion 334 in Lebanon from 1982 to 1984. He later commanded the Field Artillery School at Shivta and helped found the Moran unit. In 1996 he became a brigadier general and assistant head of IDF planning.

He studied at the University of Haifa, the National Defense University and George Washington University. He was a research fellow at Stanford University from 1999 to 2001.

In 2001 he was named head of the Strategic Planning Division. Working with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, he developed the plan that became the Gaza Disengagement. In 2005 Sharon appointed him to coordinate the disengagement in the Prime Minister's Office.

He then led the Portland Trust in Israel from 2005 to 2011 and chaired the Koret Israel Economic Development Funds from 2007 to 2013. He chairs Western Galilee College and has been Slovenia's honorary consul since 2007. He lives on Kibbutz Kabri and is married with 4 children.