Eliyahu Glickman

Eliyahu Glickman was born in 1961

Eliyahu Glickman was born on August 7, 1961. He graduated from the military boarding school in Haifa and the Hebrew Reali School. He later earned a master's degree in financial management from the US Naval Postgraduate School and completed a senior executive program at Georgetown University.

He joined the IDF in 1979 and volunteered for Shayetet 13, the naval commando unit, where he became a team commander. He commanded a missile boat in 1987 and 1988, then led the unit's combat company and took part in a raid deep in Lebanon. He commanded Shayetet 13 from 1997, a period that included the September 1997 disaster in which 11 of its fighters and a doctor were killed.

His last military post was naval attaché in the United States from 1999 to 2002, where he received the US Legion of Merit. He left the IDF in 2002 as a colonel.

He ran Exel MPL Israel from 2003 to 2005 and joined Partner Communications in 2005 as a senior executive. In April 2011 he became CEO of the Israel Electric Corporation and announced his resignation in September 2014 after a reform plan stalled. He became CEO of ZIM in 2017 and resigned in 2026 after the company's sale to Hapag-Lloyd.

He was married to Aya until her death in 2016, and they had 3 children. He lives in Herzliya.