Gabi Siboni

Gabi Siboni was born in 1957 in Israel

Gabi Siboni was born in 1957 in Shikun Canaan in Safed. His parents, Makhlouf and Helen, came to Israel from Morocco in 1955. He went to elementary and high school in Safed, where he also formed his first band.

He served in the Golani Brigade as a soldier, platoon leader and company commander. In 1984 to 1985 he commanded Sayeret Golani in South Lebanon, and he left the army at the end of 1985. He later earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Tel Aviv University and a doctorate in geographic information systems from Ben-Gurion University.

He worked as an engineer on military electro-optical systems. In 1995 he set up the Israeli branch of DHV, and in 2006 he founded the consulting firm G. Bina, which works in cyber security. He has advised the IDF on many projects.

In 2006 he joined the Institute for National Security Studies, where he headed its cyber security and military programs and edited 2 journals. In 2019 he and Gadi Eisenkot published guidelines for an Israeli security concept. He left the institute in April 2020 and joined the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security in April 2021.

Since 2019 he has been a professor at Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid. He also plays lead guitar in a rock band he founded in 2002.