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Yakov Shaharabani

Yakov Shaharabani is an Israeli Air Force brigadier general in the reserves who headed the Air Intelligence Directorate and the Helicopter Air Division, and later served as the Air Force attaché in the United States.

born 1963Heading Air Force intelligenceCommanding the Helicopter Air DivisionAir Force attaché in the United States

Occupation: military personnel, military officer
Rank: tat aluf
Wars: 1982 Lebanon War

Yakov Shaharabani was born in 1963

Yakov Shaharabani was born in 1963. He joined the Air Force flight course in 1981 and completed it with honors as a combat helicopter pilot in 1984.

He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and computer science at Bar-Ilan University with high honors. He later completed a master's degree with honors in national resource management at the National Defense University in Washington.

He flew Cobra helicopters in Squadron 160 and commanded helicopter squadrons, then the Ovda base from 2002 to 2005. In 2007 he became a brigadier general and head of the Helicopter Air Division, and from 2010 to 2012 he headed the Air Intelligence Directorate.

After that he served as the Air Force attaché in the United States. In 2018 he became chief executive of AdaSky, a company that develops a thermal vision sensor.

Yakov Shaharabani's life in 9 milestones

1981
Joined the Air Force flight course.
1984
Completed the flight course as a combat helicopter pilot.
1991
Became deputy commander of a Cobra helicopter squadron.
1998
Took command of an Apache helicopter squadron.
2002
Promoted to colonel and named commander of the Ovda base.
2007
Promoted to brigadier general and named head of the Helicopter Air Division.
2010
Led the rescue mission to Romania after a Yasur helicopter crash.
2010
Named head of the Air Intelligence Directorate.
2018
Became chief executive of AdaSky.

Yakov Shaharabani served in IDF Pilot Course

He served in the Israeli Air Force from 1981 as a Cobra and Apache helicopter pilot and commander, flying over 100 operational sorties in the Lebanon War. He rose to brigadier general and headed the Helicopter Air Division and the Air Intelligence Directorate.

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