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Place of Birth: Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
About Ehud Shani
- Aluf Ehud Shani (born May 9, 1957) is a general in the Israel Defense Forces and a former Head of C4I and Senior Field Commander.
- Born in Haifa, Shani went to "Reali" High School, a military boarding school.
- He first joined the IDF Armor Corps 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.
- In 1982 he also took a break from his military career to study at Bar-Ilan University, where he received a B.A.
- in Economics and Social Science.
- Returning to service, he continued to climb the chain of command.
- Shani moved to Fort Monroe, Virginia 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.
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