Doron Almog, born Doron Avrotzky in Rishon LeZion, Israel, is a former IDF Major General and current Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel. He attended the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa and a military boarding school during high school. Drafted into the IDF in 1969 as a paratrooper, Almog had a 34-year military career, participating in the War of Attrition, Yom Kippur War, Operation Entebbe—where he was the first soldier on the runway—the 1982 Lebanon War, South Lebanon security zone operations, and serving as head of Southern Command from 2000 to 2003. He retired as a Major General in the reserves. After retiring, Almog founded ADI Negev-Nachalat Eran, a residential and rehabilitative village for people with disabilities in southern Israel, inspired by his son Eran, who was born around 1984 and died in 2007 at age 23 from complications of severe autism and intellectual disability. Almog has been married to Didi Frida since 1978; they lost their infant daughter Shoham in 1991 due to a heart defect and have a daughter named Nitzan. His brother, Eran Avrotzky, was killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and five extended family members died in the 2003 Haifa Maxim restaurant bombing. Almog received the Israel Prize for lifetime achievement in 2016. He has faced allegations of war crimes, including a 2005 UK arrest warrant accusing him of Geneva Convention violations related to Gaza home demolitions, which he evaded by remaining on his flight; a 2009 Spanish investigation into the 2002 assassination of Salah Shehadeh, which was dropped; and recent demands for his arrest during visits to South Africa in 2025 and Australia in 2026 based on prior claims.