Nir Rosenthal

Nir Rosenthal was born in 1969 in Nahariya

Nir Rosenthal was born on October 16, 1969, and grew up in Nahariya. As a young man he raced 420 class sailboats. He won a gold medal at the 12th Maccabiah together with Erez Vardi.

He joined the IDF in 1987. After completing the pilot course, he flew Sa'ar helicopters in the Israeli Air Force.

In 1996 he joined the police air unit as a pilot. He later held command posts in and outside the unit, including operations officer of the air unit and of the Sharon region. In August 2012 he became commander of the air unit, which took over the firefighting aircraft squadron, upgraded its helicopters and began a drone fleet.

The unit became the police air division, and he was named its head in August 2016. The division received the Police Commissioner's award in 2017. He led the reception of foreign firefighting planes in 2016 and 2019 and aid missions to Montenegro, Macedonia and Cyprus, and served until June 2021.

He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in business administration. He is married with 4 daughters and lives in Moshav Hogla.