Shlomo Aharonishki

Shlomo Aharonishki was born in 1947 in Dafna

Shlomo Aharonishki was born on July 25, 1947, and grew up on Kibbutz Dafna. He is the eldest of 3 brothers. He holds a bachelor's degree in general history and political science from Ben-Gurion University at Ahva College.

He joined the IDF in 1966 and served as a fighter and officer in the Combat Engineering Corps. He helped set up the army's river crossing system and commanded its crossing school. He later commanded Battalion 601 and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In 1981 he was loaned to the Israel Police as chief bomb disposal officer, a post he held until 1989. He then led the Negev region, the Central District from 1994 and the Tel Aviv District from 1996 to December 2000. In January 2001 he became police commissioner and retired on July 31, 2004, a period marked by the Second Intifada.

In 2006 he was named head of a national committee against violence in local authorities. In 2007 a ministry auditor criticized his reporting of 350 vacation days, and he returned hundreds of thousands of shekels, while the attorney general decided not to open a criminal investigation. He founded the security consulting firm NSP, serves as a company director, and sat on the civil commission of inquiry into the October 7 disaster.

He lives in Tel Aviv. He is a widower and has 2 children.