Zeev Drori

Zeev Drori was born in 1946 in Haifa

Zeev Drori was born on August 11, 1946, and grew up in Haifa. He attended the Hebrew Reali School and was a member of the Scouts and of a Nahal group headed for Kibbutz Hatzerim.

He joined the IDF in 1964 and served in the Paratroopers, fighting in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He later commanded the Shaked unit, led the Negev Brigade in Operation Peace for Galilee, and in 1985 became the second commander of the Givati Brigade. He left regular service in 1986.

He holds a bachelor's degree in history from the Hebrew University, a master's degree in political science from Tel Aviv University, and a doctorate from Ben-Gurion University. After the army he worked in management at Netafim until 1997.

In 1998 he was appointed commander of Galei Tzahal and resigned in early 2000 after a dispute with the station's workers' committee and the Chief Education Officer. He taught history at Ben-Gurion University and from 2008 to 2015 was director general of Kinneret Academic College. In 2016 he became a professor there and chair of the Israeli Society for the Study of Military and Society.

He is one of the founders of the scouting clubs named after Uri Maimon. He has 4 children from his first wife, Batya. He later lived with his partner Yael by the Sea of Galilee and then in Jerusalem.