Roni Zuckerman

Roni Zuckerman was born in 1981 in Lohamei HaGeta'ot

Roni Zuckerman was born in 1981 and grew up on kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot near Haifa. Her father Shimon was an electrical engineer and her mother Mati held a doctorate in genetic engineering. Her grandparents, Zivia Lubetkin and Yitzhak Zuckerman, were leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and founders of the kibbutz.

As a child she lived for several years in San Diego. She studied in the science track at Salman Tzur High School in Gesher HaZiv, and was chosen for a student exchange delegation to Berlin.

The IDF barred women from pilot training until 1995. Zuckerman completed the pilots' course with distinction in 2001, the fourth woman to do so and the first to become a fighter pilot. She flew in an F-16 squadron, later served as an instructor and commander at the flight academy, and left active service in 2007.

After her discharge she studied electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University. She became vice president of engineering, operations and purchasing at an energy company. She is married and has 3 children, and in 2018 she received an honor from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.