Roni Alsheikh

Roni Alsheikh was born in 1963 in Jerusalem

Alsheikh was born in Jerusalem in 1963. His father came from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, and his mother came from a family of Moroccan origin. The family moved to Kiryat Arba, and he finished the Netiv Meir yeshiva high school in Jerusalem at 16.

He studied at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. He earned a BA in political science from the University of Haifa and an MA from Tel Aviv University, and studied criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also completed a senior management program at the Wharton School.

He joined the Paratroopers in 1981 and fought in the First Lebanon War. He later served as deputy commander of the 50th Battalion and left the army in 1988 as a major.

He joined Shin Bet in December 1988 and held regional commands, becoming deputy director in September 2014. In December 2015 he became the 18th Police Commissioner. Police investigations into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took place during his term, which was not extended and ended in December 2018.

In August 2020 he published a book about his time as commissioner. He is married, a father of 7, and lives in Givat Shmuel.