Tamir Yadai

Tamir Yadai is an Israeli major general (aluf) who is the current commander of the IDF's Central Command.
Biography.
Yadai joined the IDF in 1988, and was deployed in the 51st Battalion of the Golani Brigade. He graduated the officer training course as a combat officer and infantry commander. Afterwards he returned to the 51st Battalion and was assigned as a platoon commander. Subsequently, he was assigned to be a company commander in the 51st Battalion. He was then appointed Lieutenant Commander of the 12th Battalion. He later served as an officer of the Golani Brigade. He was then appointed Chief of staff to the IDF Deputy Chief of Staff, Shaul Mofaz.
On March 1, 1998, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed commander of the 13th Battalion. During the post, he led a force in the pursuit of a Hamas terrorist in the Hebron region, and was wounded in a collision. As a result of his injury, he was reassigned as the 
commander of the "egoz" unit in 2000, and led the unit to fight, in Operation Defensive Shield, including the siege and capture of the Muqata in Ramallah.
On June 3, 2002, he was promoted to Colonel and appointed commander of "baram" and served in the post until 2004. After graduation, he was appointed commander of the Golani Brigade on September 4, 2005, and commanded the division, among others, during the Second Lebanon War including Battle of Bint Jbeil, where the brigade fighters hit about 40 Hezbollah terrorists, and at the end of the battle he led the rescue of the eight killed from the 51st Battalion. Due to budgetary and operational constraints, he served until August 27, 2008. After twenty years of service in the Golani Brigade, he left to study.
On July 1, 2009, he was promoted to Brigadier General and appointed commander of the 80th Division. In August 2011, he commanded IDF and Israel Police counter terrorism forces who were summoned to the division, following a terrorist attack in southern Israel, in which 6 civilian police officers and a soldier were killed. along with another 30 injured civilians.
On April 4, 2013, he was appointed Commander of the Yeshua Division [11] [12], and commanded the division, in Operation "Return Brothers", in which position he served until August 5, 2015.
At the end of the position he left for academic studies. Commanders On February 2, 2017, he was promoted to the rank of Major General and on February 5 took up his position as commander of the Home Front Command, leading it during the first outbreak of the coronavirus in Israel.
Yadai was appointed to serve as Commander of the Central Command in July of 2020. In February 2021 He was appointed to serve as the next commander of IDF Ground Forces and is expected to enter in to this position sometime in the latter half of 2021.
Yadai lives in Kfar Saba, married to Yifat and father of three.