Personnel Directorate
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| Personnel Directorate | |
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| אגף כוח אדם | |
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| Active | 1947–present |
| Country |  Israel |
| Allegiance |  Israel Defense Forces |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Aluf Dado Bar Kalifa |
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| Flag |  |
The Israeli Personnel Directorate (Hebrew: אגף כוח אדם, Agaf Koakh Adam, abbreviated to AKA), formerly called the Manpower Directorate and the Human Resources Directorate, is the Israel Defense Forces 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 Dado Bar Kalifa.
History
[edit]The Personnel Directorate was established whith the forminf of the IDF in 1948.[1]
Units and Corps
[edit]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
- 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
- Welfare Division
- MOFET
- Behavioral Science Center
Commanders
[edit]Below are the historical commanders of the directorate. All of them finished their duties with the rank of Aluf, although some assumed the position with a lower rank. Includes pre-IDF Haganah commander Moshe Zadok.
- Moshe Zadok (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 (July 1963 – July 1966)
- Shmuel Eyal (July 1966 – 1970)
- Shlomo Lahat (1970–1973)
- Herzl Shapir (1973 – April 1974)
- Moshe Gidron (April 1974 – 1976)
- Raphael Vardi (1976–1978)
- Moshe Nativ (1978–1983)
- Amos Yaron (1983–1985)
- Matan Vilnai (January 1986 – 1989)
- Ran Goren (1989–1992)
- Yoram Yair (1992–1995)
- Gideon Shefer (1995–1998)
- Yehuda Segev (1998–2001)
- Gil Regev (2001–2004)
- Elazar Stern (2004–2008)
- Avi Zamir (2008–2011)
- Orna Barbivai (2011–2014; first woman to receive the rank of Aluf and to head the Directorate)
- Hagai Topolanski (2014–2017)[2]
- Moti Almoz (2017–2021)
- Yaniv Asor (2021–2024)
- Dado Bar Kalifa (2024–)
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Ostfeld, Zehava (1986). "חידוש או רציפות? הקמת אגף כוח האדם (1948) כדגם לשינוי ולחידוש" [Innovation or continuity? The establishment of the Human Resources Department (1948) as a model for change and innovation] (PDF). Ma'arakhot (in Hebrew). 302–303: 30–42.
- ↑ "ראשי אגף כוח האדם לדורותיהם" [Heads of Personnel Directorate]. IDF (in Hebrew). Retrieved May 29, 2026.
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