Pinhas Buchris

Pinhas Buchris was born in 1956

Pinhas Buchris was born on April 11, 1956, to a family of immigrants from Tunisia, the third of 7 sons. He grew up in the moshava of Yavne'el and attended a boarding school at the B.Z. Mossinson youth village in Hod HaSharon.

He began a pilot course in the IDF, left it, and volunteered for Sayeret Matkal, where he took part in the Entebbe raid. He left the army in 1982 and earned a degree in computer engineering at the Technion. He later completed a management program at Harvard Business School and an MBA from the University of Derby's Israeli branch.

In 1988 he returned to service as deputy commander of Sayeret Matkal. He then held senior posts in the intelligence directorate's technology units, and from 1997 to July 2001 he commanded Unit 8200.

After leaving the army he worked in investment, joining Apax Israel in 2003. From 2007 to January 2010 he was director general of the Ministry of Defense, where he influenced the decision to develop Iron Dome. In 2011 he became CEO of Oil Refineries, and in 2015 he became a partner in the venture fund State of Mind Ventures.

He is married to Yodfat Harel-Buchris, a business consultant, and lives in Ramat HaSharon.