Gideon Avidor

Gideon Avidor was born in 1939 in Givat Brenner

Gideon Avidor was born in 1939 and grew up in Kibbutz Givat Brenner. His parents had come to Palestine from Germany after the Nazis took power in 1933. After the split in the Kibbutz Meuhad movement, he moved to Kibbutz Netzer Sereni.

He joined the IDF in 1957 and served in the Armored Corps as a fighter, platoon commander and deputy tank company commander. He left in 1961, then returned to career service in 1963. He held staff and command posts in several brigades and fought in the Six-Day War in Sinai.

In the Yom Kippur War he was operations officer of Division 252. He later commanded Brigade 421 and the Armor School, and in the First Lebanon War he was deputy commander of the Armored Corps. His last post was IDF attaché in Singapore, the Philippines and Australia.

In 2007 he helped found the Institute for Land Warfare Studies and served as its director general. After the Second Lebanon War he assisted the Winograd Commission. He holds a BA in history from Tel Aviv University and an MA in urban geography from the University of Haifa.