Yosi Silman

Yosi Silman was born in 1960 in Israel

Silman was born in Israel in 1959. He graduated from the Midrashiyat Noam yeshiva high school.

He joined the Armored Corps and became a tank officer. In the First Lebanon War he served as operations officer of Battalion 196 and later led a company in Brigade 500, fighting in Beirut.

He later commanded a tank battalion, the Yiftach formation from 1994 to 1997, and Brigade 500 from 1997 to 1999. He commanded the Sinai formation as a brigadier general in 2001 and 2002 and left the IDF in 2003.

He headed the IDF housing directorate for the army's move to the Negev and ran the field staff of Yesh Atid. In May 2013 he became director general of the Ministry of Welfare, serving until 2015, and in March 2017 director general of the Holon municipality, serving until January 2020.

In April 2021 he became director general of the Pardes Hanna-Karkur local council. He held degrees from Bar-Ilan University and Ben-Gurion University. He died on September 24, 2026.