Dan Halutz (7 August 1948-) was Commander of the Israeli Air Force from April 2000 to April 2004 (succeeding Eitan Ben Eliyahu and preceding Eliezer Shkedi) and IDF Chief of Staff from 1 June 2005 to 14 February 2007 (succeeding Moshe Ya'alon and preceding Gabi Ashkenazi).
Biography[]
Dan Halutz was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1948 to Jewish immigrant parents from Iran and Iraq. Halutz joined the Israeli Air Force in 1966 and served in the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War, and he became a Brigadier-General in 1993 and a Major-General in 1998. Halutz served as commander of the IAF from 2000 to 2004 and as Chief of Staff of the IDF from 2005 to 2007, and he oversaw targeted killings during the Second Intifada, tightened cooperation with the ground forces and the Shin Bet, and resigned in 2007. He joined Kadima in 2010.