Raz Sagi

Raz Sagi was born in 1964 in Nir Yitzhak

Raz Sagi was born in 1964 at Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak to Dalia and Zvi. He later moved with his father to Tel Aviv and then to Mitzpe Ramon. He studied for 3 years at the Acre naval officers school.

He enlisted in the IDF in August 1983 and later served in the Givati Brigade, rising to command its reconnaissance unit. In 1989 he was tried after shooting a Palestinian youth who threw stones at his force, received community service and was later pardoned. He went on to command Unit 636 from 1999 and retired as a colonel in 2006.

After leaving the army he wrote nonfiction books on military and security topics. His book "Being a Battalion Commander" won the Moldovan Prize for security literature in 2013. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in the humanities from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He managed planning at the LOGIC company, headed the Beit Aryeh development company in 2015 and 2016, and became director of Avnei Hefetz in 2017. From July 2021 to the end of 2023 he was CEO of Sonol EV. He lost the 2018 Rosh HaAyin mayoral runoff and won the 2024 election with 45%.

Since 2006 he has chaired the Forum for IDF Resilience. He is married with 3 children and lives in Neve Afek in Rosh HaAyin.