Moshe Tsabari

Moshe Tsabari was born in 1954 in Petah Tikva

Moshe Tsabari was born in 1954 and grew up in Petah Tikva, in a family that had immigrated from Yemen. He attended high school at the Steinberg boarding school for gifted students in Kfar Saba.

He joined the IDF in 1972, left the pilot course and volunteered for Sayeret Matkal, fighting in the Yom Kippur War under Yoni Netanyahu. He was wounded in that war and again in the 1982 Lebanon War, where he fought as a reservist with the Golani reconnaissance unit. He later commanded an operational company in Sayeret Matkal and left the IDF in 1987 as a lieutenant colonel.

He joined the Shin Bet in 1989 and headed an operational division. In 1994 he became its security officer in Toronto, in 1998 head of the security assistance division, and in 2001 head of human resources. He retired in December 2004.

In 2005 he founded the consulting firm Osher. In 2010 and 2011 he headed an IDF inquiry into the conduct of Boaz Harpaz, and he later served as vice president for innovation at ICTS Europe from 2018 to 2022. Since 2014 he has been a director of Magal.

He holds 3 degrees from the Technion, including a doctorate, and completed the Wharton AMP program. He is married to Vered and has 3 children.