Shmuel Gordon

Shmuel Gordon was born in 1944 in Mishmar HaEmek

Shmuel Gordon was born in 1944 on Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek. He now lives in Har Adar.

He joined the Air Force and finished fighter pilot training in 1963. He served 27 years as a fighter pilot, unit commander and staff officer, reaching the rank of colonel. He flew in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War, commanded Squadron 105, and led the Air Force central control post in 1982 to 1984.

While in uniform he earned a bachelor's degree in humanities in 1980 and a master's in political science in 1982, both at Tel Aviv University. In 1996 he completed a doctorate in military history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

After leaving the army he worked at the RAND Corporation in California from 1988 to 1991. He advises the defense industries on weapon systems and decision making, and lectures at the Hebrew University. His book Paris's Bow won the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for military literature in 1998, and he has also published poetry and 2 novels.