Maj. Gen.(Ret.) Amos Yadlin

Amos Yadlin served in the Israel Defense Forces for 40 years, eight as a member of the IDF General Staff. From 2006-2010, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yadlin served as the IDF’s chief of Military Intelligence. Prior to that, he served as defense attaché to the United States. A former deputy commander of the Israel Air Force, he commanded two fighter squadrons and two airbases, flying more than 250 combat missions. He participated in the Yom Kippur War (1973), Operation Peace for the Galilee (1982), and Operation Tamuz – the destruction of the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq (1981). Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yadlin earned a B.A. with honors in economics and business administration from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1985). He holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and served as Executive Director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University from November 2011 to May 2021.