Yaakov amidror biography of abraham

Israeli general and National Security Advisor

Yaakov Amidror (Hebrew: יעקב עמידרור; born 15 May 1948) is a former major general and National Security Advisor of Israel and was also the head of the Research Department of Israeli military intelligence.

Today, he is the Anne and Greg Rosshandler Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, a conservative security think tank.

Biography

Background

Amidror was born in Yad Eliyahu, Israel, on the day after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

His father, Leo, had enlisted in the British Army during World War II, and spent five years in German captivity after being taken prisoner in Greece. His mother, Tzila, was an Irgun member, active in the organization's finance department, who had been arrested by the British in 1941, and incarcerated at the Bethlehem Women's Prison.^[1][2]

Military career

Amidror was drafted into the Israeli Defense Forces in