Oded Raor

Oded Raor was born in 1967 in Nahariya

Oded Raor was born in Nahariya on October 3, 1967. He was the eldest son of Yehudit and Yehoshua Raor.

He joined the IDF in February 1985 and volunteered for Sayeret Matkal. After infantry officers' course he returned to the unit, led a team and headed its training section. In 1992 two soldiers died of heatstroke during a navigation exercise, and 4 years later he was convicted of negligence and given a 90-day suspended sentence.

He later served as deputy commander of Maglan. A 2004 petition to the High Court against his appointment to lead Sayeret Matkal was rejected, and he commanded the unit from 2004 to 2007, including in the Second Lebanon War. From 2009 to 2012 he commanded the 5th Brigade.

He held a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from the University of Toronto. After the army he was a manager at Celestica and a business development manager at Bynet. He died of cardiac arrest in his sleep at his home in Kadima on August 19, 2014, and was buried at Kibbutz Shefayim.