Tzvika Oren

Tzvika Oren was born in 1947 in Sighetu Marmației

Oren was born in Sighet, Romania, with the family name Einhorn. He was the elder of two children of David and Tova Einhorn, and his family moved to Israel when he was 3. They lived in a transit camp in Pardes Hanna and later in Magdiel, and his father died of cancer when he was 11.

After primary school in Magdiel, the family moved to Ramat Gan. From age 13 he studied at the Nehalim yeshiva near Petah Tikva, and he also attended the religious high school Haroeh in Ramat Gan. He later earned a degree in mechanical engineering at the Technion and a master's degree in political science at the University of Haifa.

He joined the IDF in 1965 and served in the Armored Corps, fighting in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He then moved to the Ordnance Corps and held several posts there. In September 1988 he became Chief Ordnance Officer with the rank of brigadier general.

After leaving the army in 1991 he founded Amit Industry, whose subsidiary builds parts for and refurbishes railway cars in Beersheba and Dimona. In 2009 he joined the presidium of the Manufacturers Association. In early 2012 he was elected its president and chairman of the Presidium of Business Organizations, and in January 2015 Shraga Brosh was elected to replace him.

He is married to Tova, and the couple has 2 children. He lives in Tel Aviv.