Major General Gadi Shamni
Israel Defense and Armed Forces Attach
To the United States & Canada

MG Gadi Shamni was born in Jerusalem in 1959 and enlisted in the paratroopers' brigade of the IDF in 1977. The Majority of his military career was served in the paratroopers' brigade and special units.
In 1989 MG Shamni was appointed commander of the paratrooper's 890 battalion. Later on, he became the commander of the paratroopers' reservist brigade and in 1999 became the commander of the paratroopers' active duty brigade.
He also served as the battalion commander of the IDF officers' school and as the commander of the Hebron territorial brigade.
In 2001 MG Shamni was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and appointed Chief of infantry and paratroopers.
In 2003 he became the commander of the Gaza division and in 2004 became the head of the operation division of the I.D.F headquarters.
In 2005, he was promoted to the rank of Major General and served as Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon's military secretary and later on as Prime Minister Olmert's military secretary. Two years later, in 2007 he was appointed as the commander of the central command, which includes Jerusalem and the area of Judea and Samaria.
MG Shamni is the Defense and armed forces attach? to the United States and Canada since November 2009.
MG Shamni holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science from the University of Bar Ilan, and a Master of Arts degree in national defense from the University of Haifa. He is a graduate of the IDF staff and Command College, a course in the US army special forces (Green berets) in North Carolina and the US army war college in Carlisle Barracks Pennsylvania.
He is married to Hadas and a father of three daughters and a son.