17 Facts About Doron Almog

Doron Almog was appointed Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel in July 2022.

Doron Almog was born in Rishon LeZion, the eldest of four children.

Doron Almog attended the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, and attended military boarding school while in high school.

Doron Almog's son Eran, who was named after his brother, was born with brain damage, and suffered from severe autism and mental retardation.

Doron Almog's daughter Shoham was born with a severe injury to an artery in her heart, and died a month after her birth in 1991.

Doron Almog founded Aleh Negev, a village for the disabled which provides residential, medical and social services to the handicapped of southern Israel.

Doron Almog volunteered as a paratrooper in the Paratroopers Brigade, and fought as a soldier and as a squad leader during the War of Attrition.

Doron Almog fought in the Yom Kippur War as a company commander at the 202 paratroop battalion on the Sinai front.

Doron Almog led a force of officers and soldiers from the company in Operation Entebbe, and was the first soldier to land on the runway at Entebbe, marking and securing it for incoming Israeli airplanes, then leading the capture of the airfield's control tower in the rescue operation.

Doron Almog was to be arrested when he presented himself but the Israeli military attache advised him to stay on the plane and return to Israel.

In 2009, Doron Almog was among the Israeli officials investigated by the National Court, a special and exceptional court in Spain, over the 2002 assassination of Hamas official Salah Shehade.

Doron Almog was given the responsibility for carrying out the Bill on the Arrangement of Bedouin Settlement in the Negev, which led to 2013 Israeli protests.

Doron Almog was awarded the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement in 2016.

When Doron Almog accepted his prize, members of the audience rose to their feet to applaud him.

Doron Almog spoke of his work as founder of a rehabilitation village for disabled children, named in honor of his son, Eran, who died in 2007.

Doron Almog noted, ""in Eran's name and the name of his friends who didn't know what independence is, I ask that this ceremony be the beginning of a journey for tikkun olam, making Israeli society a more patient, more inclusive society.

On July 10,2022, Doron Almog was appointed to lead the Jewish Agency for Israel as its chairman by the organisation's board of governors, filling a year-long vacancy left by the organisation's previous chair Isaac Herzog, who left the position in order to become President of Israel.