Eyal Ben-Reuven

Eyal Ben-Reuven was born in 1954 in Petah Tikva

Eyal Ben-Reuven was born on 22 May 1954. He grew up on Kibbutz Netzer Sereni as the only child of Palmach veterans.

He joined the Armored Corps in 1972 and fought in Sinai and the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur War. In the First Lebanon War he commanded Battalion 71. He later led Brigades 401 and 188, a division, and a corps, and headed the IDF Military Colleges from 2004 to 2006.

He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Haifa and a master's degree in security studies from Tel Aviv University. He also studied at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

He left the IDF in February 2007. In October 2007 he became director of the Born to Freedom association, which worked for the return of captive and missing soldiers. In 2014 he became head of the land division at Israel Aerospace Industries.

He was active in Meretz and then entered the 20th Knesset for Hatnuah on the Zionist Union list. He chaired the Ethics Committee and worked on construction safety laws. On 1 May 2019 he became head of safety at the Builders Association. He is a father of 6 and lives in Yodfat.