Shaul Mofaz Biography

Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz (Hebrew: שאול מופז‎; born Shahrām Mofazzazkār Persian: شهرام مفضض‌کار‎; 4 November 1948) is an Iranian-born Israeli former soldier and politician. He joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1966 and served in the Paratroopers Brigade. He fought in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit. In 1998 he became the sixteenth IDF's Chief of the General Staff, serving until 2002. He is of Iranian Jewish ancestry.