Ido Saad

Ido Saad was born in 1982 in Yated

Ido Saad was born in 1982 and grew up in Moshav Yated. He is married to Sarit, has four children and lives in Yated. He holds a bachelor's degree in government and politics and a master's degree in business administration.

He joined the IDF in 2001 and was assigned to the Nahal Brigade, where he trained as a combat soldier and completed infantry squad commander and officer courses. He later served as deputy commander of Battalion 932, including during Operation Brother's Keeper and Operation Protective Edge. In 2016 he became a lieutenant colonel and deputy commander of the Northern Brigade in the Gaza Strip.

He commanded the Caracal Battalion from 2017 to 2019 and the Border Protection training base from 2019 to 2021. In 2021 he was operations officer of the Edom Division. On 2 January 2022 he was promoted to colonel and named commander of the Paran Brigade.

After a shooting attack on the Israel-Egypt border in his sector in June 2023, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi decided to remove him from the post, citing his overall responsibility for the failures found in the inquiry. On 3 August 2023 he became operations officer of the Depth Command. On the morning of 7 October 2023 he was caught in a militant infiltration while cycling, and he spent the day rescuing civilians and fighting.