Nadene Goldfoot
Yaron Finkelman was born in 1975 in Ra'anana, Israel, making him 48 years old.Ra'anana (Hebrew: רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is an affluent city in the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel. It was founded in 1922 as an American-Jewish settlement. I saw him on CBN that I see on YouTube today. Finkelman was drafted into the IDF in 1993 at age 30 and did most of his military service in the Paratroopers Brigade. He's been in 8 wars.
Brig. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, who took over this month after July 9th. The Commanding Officer of the Southern Command, MG Eliezer Toledano, concluded his position., told Haaretz about the challenges Israel will face in another war, and the optimism he found at a COVID hot spot. He learned from Gaza, Lebanon and the Coronavirus.
The head of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, summarizes the first month of the war on Hamas by hailing IDF soldiers and commanders as a “generation of victory.”“Our actions are harming the heart of Hamas activities. We eliminated dozens of commanders, unveiled many tunnels, and we are striking the enemy hard,” he says in a statement after visiting the Strip, acknowledging once again the army’s failure to prevent the terror group’s October 7 onslaught. Finkelman says the troops have the hostages held by Hamas on their mind the whole while, and that “returning them is our compass.”
Outgoing Head of the Operations Division, BG Yaron Finkelman: He was being replaced to take on his new commander position. BG Shlomi Binder entered his new position as the Head of the Operations Division. BG Binder is replacing BG Yaron Finkelman, who served in the position for the past two years.
“The IDF conducts operational activity at every hour of every day, in every arena and dimension: Intensive activity at an accelerated pace, in a constant learning competition against our enemy with creativity, determination and courage. Many of these activities are undetectable to the human eye, and rise, not as an exaggeration, to the imagination. The Operations Division, as we know, is an operational administrative body whose effectiveness is the lifeblood of the IDF, and so are you! Advancing the operational activity of the IDF from the thick of the earth.
He served as a soldier and squad leader in the 500th Brigade Reconnaissance company.
In 1996 he became an infantry officer after completing officer candidate school and return to the brigade. Finkelman led the Brigade's Reconnaissance company in counter-guerrilla operations in South Lebanon.
Afterwards he served as an Executive officer in Maglan special forces unit and in 890 "Efe" (Echis) paratroop battalion in counter-terror operations in the Second Intifada.
In 2006 Lebanon War he served as Gen. Dan Halutz's aide-de-camp.
Later on he commanded the 35th paratroopers Brigade's reconnaissance battalion in counter-terror operations in the Gaza Strip.
On November 4, 2008, he led his paratroopers in Operation Double Challenge, a military incursion into a residential area of Dayr al-Balah in central Gaza, that resulted in six militants killed and the destruction of a tunnel concealed within a building 300 meters from the fence on the Gaza Strip border.
Finkelman continued and led his paratroopers battalion during the Operation Cast Lead.
He commanded a reserve paratrooper brigade during Operation Pillar of Defense and a Regional Brigade in the Gaza Division during Operation Protective Edge.
In 2015 he was appointed commander of the Givati Brigade. In 2017 he was promoted to Brigadier general and was given command of the 98th Paratroopers Division.
Then we had October 7th, 2023 attack on the Music Festival. In 2023 he was promoted to Major general and was given command of the Southern Command.
Finkelman follows a line of well-known generals;
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra'anana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_Finkelman
booklet: facts about israel 1973; Division of Information, ministry for foreign affairs, Jerusalem
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