Moshe Gidron

Moshe Gidron
Born 25 May 1925
Died 14 November 2009
Allegiance Israel
Years of service 1948-1972, 1974-1976
Rank Aluf

Moshe Gidron (Hebrew: משה גדרון‎, born 25 May 1925 - died 14 November 2009) was a general in the Israel Defense Forces and former head of the Israeli Human Resources Directorate.

Born under the British Mandate of Palestine, at the age of 17 Gidron joined Palmach and served in it until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. He was then trained as communications officer, serving in Yiftach Brigade and later as chief communications officer of the Central Command and later in the Southern Command. During 1952-1953 he commanded the military training school for communications.

In 1966 he was made head of the Communications and Electronics Corps, serving in that capacity during the Six Day War. He was discharged in 1972 as a Brigadier General, becoming CEO of the Koor industries and Telrad telecommunications company.

In 1973 his son, Ilan Gidron, was killed during the Yom Kippur War.

Gidron returned to army service in April 1974, promoted to the rank of Major General (Aluf) as head of the IDF's Manpower Directorate. He held this position until 1976.

Following his discharge Gidron was appointed as Director General of the Ministry of Communications. In 1979 he was appointed as Israel's Consul General to Southwestern United States. Between the years 1988-2002 he was chief comptroller of the Israeli defense system.

Moshe Zadok (1947–49) · Shimon Maz'ah (1949–52) · Tzvi Tzur (1952–56) · Gideon Shoken (1956–61) · Aharon Doron (1961–63) · Haim Ben David (1963–66) · Shmuel Eyal (1966–70) · Shlomo Lahat (1970–73) · Herzl Shafir (1973–74) · Moshe Gidron (1974-76) · Rafael Vardi (1976–78) · Moshe Nativ (1978–83) · Amos Yaron (1983–85) · Matan Vilnai (1986–89) · Ran Goren (1989–92) · Yoram Yair (1992–95) · Gideon Scheffer (1995–98) · Yehuda Segev (1998–2001) · Gil Regev (2001–04) · Elazar Stern (2004–08) · Avi Zamir (2008–)