Ori Levi

Ori Levi was born in 1979

Ori Levi was born in December 1978 and grew up in Kedumim. He studied at the Bnei Akiva Shomron yeshiva high school in Karnei Shomron. He then attended the Bnei David pre-military academy in Eli.

He enlisted in the IDF in 1998 and volunteered for the Oketz Unit, where he became a team commander and later a platoon commander. After 8 years in the unit he moved to the Kfir Brigade. There he held command posts in the Duchifat and Netzah Yehuda battalions and at the Kfir training base.

He commanded the Netzah Yehuda Battalion from 2014 to 2016 and the Kfir training base from 2017 to 2019. In 2019 he became a colonel and took command of the Sharon Formation and the Lachish Brigade. From 2021 he served as operations officer of Corps 446 and chief of staff of the ground forces training command, and he retired in 2023.

In August 2024 he was appointed director general of Aminadav, a civilian national service association. He lives in Jerusalem, is married to the writer Hila Levi, and has 4 children.