Zohar Dvir

Zohar Dvir was born in 1965 in Rishon LeZion

Zohar Dvir was born in 1965 in Rishon LeZion to David and Pentzi Davidovich. He studied at the military boarding school attached to the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He later earned a master's degree in Middle East studies from Tel Aviv University.

He joined the IDF in 1983 and, after leaving the pilot course, served in the Golani Brigade. He held command posts there, including commander of the Golani reconnaissance unit from 1992 to 1994. He left the army in 1995 and then worked as a security manager for El Al in Germany for 3 years and as operations manager at Shlomo Sixt.

In 1999 he joined the Border Police and served in the Yamam, which he commanded from 2001 during the Second Intifada. In November 2003 he was critically injured when a truck hit the scene where he had stopped to rescue a hurt driver. He returned to command the unit, including in the Second Lebanon War.

He later held senior posts in the Northern District and headed the Logistics Support Division from 2011. He became Northern District commander in 2014 and deputy commissioner in December 2015. He announced his retirement in August 2018.

He is CEO of Tor, an international security company, and a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University. He is married to Neta and has 3 children.