Yossi Bachar

Yossi Bachar was born in 1964 in Be'eri

Yossi Bachar was born in Rehovot to Yitzhak and Geula Bachar. He grew up and went to school in Kibbutz Be'eri.

He joined the IDF in 1983 and volunteered for the Paratroopers, where he rose from platoon commander to company commander. He studied at the IDF Command and Staff College and earned a bachelor's degree in History from Tel Aviv University. He later studied law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

He commanded the Paratroopers Reconnaissance Unit, Battalion 101, the Maglan unit and the reserve 55th Brigade. He led the Paratroopers Brigade during the Second Intifada and later the Gaza Division. In 2014 he became a major general and head of the General Staff Corps, and he left regular service in 2018.

In 2020 he joined the movement The Securityists. In April 2020 he was put in charge of the coronavirus crisis in Beitar Illit for a month.

On 7 October 2023 his mother Geula was murdered by Hamas in Be'eri. That day he took a weapon and fought the attackers for hours with kibbutz member Rami Gold. During the war that followed he served as deputy commander of Southern Command.