Ehud Shani (; born May 9, 1957) is a general in the

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and a former Head of C4I and Senior Field Commander.

Biography

Ehud ("Udi") Shani was born in

Haifa Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...

. He studied at Reali High School. He joined the IDF

Armor Corps The Israeli Armored Corps (, ''Heil HaShiryon'') is a corps of the Israel Defense Forces that, since 1998, has been subordinate to GOC Army Headquarters. The Armored Corps is the principal maneuvering corps, and primarily bases its strength ...

in 1975 as an enlisted soldier, but the following year he attended Officers School to become an officer. He was the Deputy Commander of an armor battalion during the

1982 Lebanon War The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Palestine Liberation Organization ...

. In 1982 he took a break from his military career to study at

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, where he received a B.A. in Economics and Social Science. Returning to service, he continued to climb the

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. Shani moved to

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in 1991 as an Israeli Liaison officer, but returned to Israel in 1994 to become the commander of a tank brigade. He was promoted to Brigadier General in May 2000 when he was appointed the head of the Armor Corps. In December 2003 he was appointed to his current post after serving two years as the head of the "Plada" (steel) Formation, an armored division.

References

Bio from IDF
Living people Israeli generals 1957 births Bar-Ilan University alumni Military personnel from Haifa {{Israel-mil-bio-stub Military Boarding School for Command alumni