Tal Ashur

Tal Ashur was born in 1985

Tal Ashur joined the IDF in 2001 and volunteered for the Shaldag Unit, where he served as a fighter. After the infantry officers course he moved to the Givati Brigade. There he led the reconnaissance platoon of the Rotem Battalion support company, then served as its deputy commander and later commanded the lead company of the Shaked Battalion.

In 2013 he became commander of the Rimon Unit and led it in Operation Protective Edge. The Southern Command chief, Sami Turgeman, gave the unit a unit citation in 2015. He later commanded the Rotem Battalion and the Givati training base.

In 2020 he was promoted to colonel and took command of the Southern Brigade in the Gaza Strip. In 2023 he became commander of the live fire training center. After the brigade commander Asaf Hamami was killed on October 7, 2023, he returned to lead the Southern Brigade during the Swords of Iron War.

In October 2024 he took command of the Multidimensional Unit, whose commander Roi Levy was killed in the October 7 fighting, and served there until January 2026. He was then named head of the Security Division with the rank of brigadier general. He holds degrees from Reichman University, the University of Haifa and the National Defense University in Washington.