Izhar Peled

Izhar Peled was born in 1961 in Kfar Aza

Izhar Peled was born in 1961 to a family of immigrants from Yemen in Moshav Heletz. He studied at the Harav Kook school in Moshav Tlamim and finished high school at Mikveh Israel. He later earned a bachelor's degree in Middle Eastern studies and a master's degree in Middle East history.

He served in the IDF in the Paratroopers Brigade and became an officer.

In the Border Police he held a series of operations and command posts from 1995. In 2005 he was promoted to Commander and became deputy commander of the West Bank Border Police, and he later led the Arava and Southern District units. In 2012 he took command of the Jerusalem Border Police as Assistant Commissioner, and he led the police response to rioting in East Jerusalem after the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir.

In 2016 he became commander of the West Bank Border Police, and he retired from the police in 2020. He was married to Gila, a nurse, and had 4 children. On 7 October 2023 he was killed at his home in Kfar Aza with his wife and son, and he was buried in Kibbutz Gat.