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Moshe Katsav (Musa Katsav)
Eighth President of the State of Israel (2000- present)

Moshe Katsav was born in 1945 in Iran. He immigrated to Israel in 1951. Married to Gila, father of five, he has lived in Kiryat Malachi since 1951. Mr. Katsav is a traditional old time Persian man.

Moshe Katsav

Yitzhak Mordechai (Yitzhak Mardkhay)
Israel's Former Defense Minister

A Kurdish Iranian Origin, immigrated to Israel, Mordechai, a major Israeli political figure. commander of Paratroopers, a great military commander, granted many medals of courage in battles, Mordechai is a fine patriot.

Yitzhak Mordechai 

Shaul Mofaz (Shaul Moufaz) (1948 - present )

Israel's Defense Minister

Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz, born in Iran in 1948, is married with four children. He immigrated to Israel in 1957. In 1966 he joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and as a paratrooper, in the Six-Day War he fought in the Negev. He then filled command positions in the Paratroop Brigade. He commanded the Paratroop Reconnaissance Unit and a paratroop battalion, served as a Deputy Paratroop Brigade Commander, and commanded the Paratroop Brigade. During the 1982 Operation Peace for Galilee, he was an infantry brigade commander. He received a BA in business administration from Bar-Ilan University and attended the Command and Staff College of the US Marine Corps. Subsequently he served as the Commander of IDF Officers School.

1986-88 Commander of the Paratroop Brigade  
1988 Promoted to Brigadier-General  
1988-90 Held senior position in Ground Corps Command  
1990-92 Commander of the Galilee Formation  
1993-94 Officer Commanding IDF forces in Judea and Samaria  
1994 Promoted to Major-General  
1994-96 G.O.C. Southern Command  
1996-97 Chief of Planning Branch of the General Staff  
1997 Deputy Chief of General Staff and Chief of General Staff Branch (J-3)  
1998-2002 Became sixteenth Chief of General Staff

In November 2002, Shaul Mofaz was appointed Minister of Defense.

Shaul Mofaz