The

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

i Personnel Directorate (, ''Agaf Koakh Adam'', abbreviated to AKA), formerly called the Manpower Directorate and the Human Resources Directorate, is the

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and ...

body that holds responsibility for planning and coordination of Human Resources placement and movement within the IDF, planning and management of all military Human Resources, and responsibility for the welfare of all service members. The current Head of the Personnel Directorate is Major General

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Units and Corps

The Personnel Directorate has eight main corps and General Officer-level units directly subordinate to it, as well as numerous units and sub-units. The six main subordinates are: * Military Police Corps *

Education and Youth Corps The Education and Youth Corps (, ''Heil HaHinuh VeHaNo'ar'') is a corps of the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) Personnel Directorate responsible for the education of IDF personnel. Its mission purpose it to instruct and develop "national values" amo ...

* Human Resources Corps and Casualties Division * Gender Advisor to the Chief of Defense Staff * Staff Division and General Corps *Human Resources Planning and Management Division ** Meitav *Welfare Division **MOFET *Behavioral Science Center

Commanders

Below are the historical commanders of the directorate. All of them finished their duties with the rank of

Aluf ( or "first/leader of a group" in Biblical Hebrew) is a senior military rank in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) for officers who in other countries would have the rank of general, air marshal, or admiral. In addition to the ''aluf'' rank, fo ...

, although some assumed the position with a lower rank. Includes pre-IDF

Haganah Haganah ( , ) was the main Zionist political violence, Zionist paramilitary organization that operated for the Yishuv in the Mandatory Palestine, British Mandate for Palestine. It was founded in 1920 to defend the Yishuv's presence in the reg ...

commander Moshe Zadok. *

Moshe Zadok Moshe Lehrer Tzadok (sometimes spelled Moshe Zadok; ; July 1, 1913 - March 15, 1964) was Haganah fighter and later an IDF major general, first head of the Manpower Directorate during the 1947–1949 Palestine war, and head of the Israeli Norther ...

(May 1947 – 1949) * Shimon Mazah (1949 – December 1952) * Zvi Zur (December 1952 – February 1956) * Gideon Shoken (February 1956 – April 1961) * Aharon Doron (April 1961 – July 1963) *

Haim Ben David Haim Ben-David (; May 6, 1919 – November 22, 1967) was a major general in the Israel Defense Forces, the second Military Secretary to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and the head of the Manpower Directorate. After his military service, B ...

(July 1963 – July 1966) * Shmuel Eyal (July 1966 – 1970) *

Shlomo Lahat Shlomo "Chich" Lahat (; November 9, 1927 – October 1, 2014) was a major general in the Israel Defense Forces and former Head of the Manpower Directorate. He served as the eighth mayor of Tel Aviv in 1974–1993, for four consecutive terms. Afte ...

(1970–1973) * Herzl Shapir (1973 – April 1974) *

Moshe Gidron Moshe Gidron (; May 25, 1925 – November 14, 2009) was a major general in the Israel Defense Forces and former head of the Manpower Directorate. Biography Gidron was born in Tel Aviv during the British Mandate of Palestine. At age 17 he join ...

(April 1974 – 1976) *

Raphael Vardi Rafael Vardi (Also spelled Raphael Vardi; ; 1922 – 25 December 2016) was Israel Defense Forces Major General and former head of the Manpower Directorate. Vardi was also the Chief Military Police Officer from 1960 to 1962. Biography Born ...

(1976–1978) *

Moshe Nativ Moshe Nativ (; born Moise Vegh; June 22, 1932 – September 20, 2008) was Israel Defense Forces Major General and former head of the Manpower Directorate. Biography Nativ was born as Moise Vegh in 1932 in a Petrova, a small village in central ...

(1978–1983) *

Amos Yaron Amos Yaron (; born 1 April 1940) is a retired Israel Defense Forces Aluf, Major General and former head of the Manpower Directorate. He served as the Director General of the Ministry of Defense (Israel), Ministry of Defense from 1999 until 2005. ...

(1983–1985) *

Matan Vilnai Matan Vilnai (; born 20 May 1944) is an Israeli politician and a former major general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). A former Knesset member and government minister, he was appointed ambassador to China in 2012. Since 2017 Vilnai serves as ...

(January 1986 – 1989) *

Ran Goren Ran Goren (; born March 19, 1942) is a retired fighter pilot and Major General of the IDF, former Deputy Commander of the Air Force and Head of the Manpower Directorate. Biography Early life Goren was born in Kibbutz Merhavia to Shoshanna and ...

(1989–1992) *

Yoram Yair Yoram Shmuel Yair (; born 29 August 1944) is an Israeli retired soldier who served in the IDF for 35 years until his release with the rank of major general, in 1998. After his release, he volunteers in the social, educational and business fiel ...

(1992–1995) *

Gideon Shefer Gideon (; ) also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is recounted in of the Book of Judges in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Gideon was the ...

(1995–1998) *

Yehuda Segev Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to: Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms * Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Jud ...

(1998–2001) *

Gil Regev Gil or GIL may refer to: Places * Gil Island (disambiguation), one of several islands by that name * Gil, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Hil, Azerbaijan, also spelled ''Gil, a village in Azerbaijan * Hiloba, also spelled ''Gi ...

(2001–2004) * Elazar Shtern (2004–2008) * Avi Zamir (2008–2011) *

Orna Barbivai Orna Barbivai (; born 5 September 1962) is the former Minister of Economy, a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces, and the former head of its Manpower Directorate. She was the first woman to be made Major-general (Aluf), the I ...

(2011–2014) * Hagai Topolanski (2014–2017) *

Moti Almoz Mordechai (Moti) Almoz (; born 1967) is a major general ("Aluf") in the Israel Defense Forces who has been serving as the IDF Spokesperson since 2013. He previously served as commander of the Combat Engineering Corps and head of the Israeli Civi ...

(2017–2021) * Yaniv Asor (2021–2024) *

(2024–)

External links

* Israel Defense Forces directorates Military human resource management {{DEFAULTSORT:Personnel_Directorate