Shaul Mofaz
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- Ha-Masaʻ ha-Yiśreʼeli sheli
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5 total works indexed
- A Unique Microglia Type Associated with Restricting Development of Alzheimer’s Disease
· 2017 · cited 5,040x
- Host microbiota constantly control maturation and function of microglia in the CNS
· 2015 · cited 3,184x
- The Rag GTPases Bind Raptor and Mediate Amino Acid Signaling to mTORC1
· 2008 · cited 2,416x
- Tissue-Resident Macrophage Enhancer Landscapes Are Shaped by the Local Microenvironment
· 2014 · cited 1,995x
- Unsupervised Spike Detection and Sorting with Wavelets and Superparamagnetic Clustering
· 2004 · cited 1,941x
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Key facts
- 2012
- Vice Prime Minister
- Prime minister
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Preceded by
- Shelly Yachimovich
- Succeeded by
- Shelly Yachimovich
- 2002 2006
- Minister of Defense
- 2006 2009
- Deputy Prime Minister
- 2006 2015
- Kadima
- Born
- ( 1948-11-04 ) 4 November 1948 (age 77) , Tehran , Iran
- Allegiance
- Israel
- Branch service
- Israel Defense Forces
- Years of service
- 1966–2002 (36 years)
- Rank
- Rav Aluf ( Chief of Staff ; highest rank)
- Commands
- 202 Paratrooper battalion Paratroopers Brigade 769th Division IDF Officer's school 91st Division Judea and Samaria Division Southern Command Planning Directorate Deputy Chief of Staff Operations Directorate Chief of General Staff
- Battles wars
- Six-Day War War of Attrition Yom Kippur War Operation Entebbe First Lebanon War First Intifada Second Intifada Operation Defensive Shield
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Encyclopedic overview
Shaul Mofaz (Hebrew: שאול מופז; 4 November 1948) is a retired Israeli military officer and politician. He joined the Israel Defense Forces in 1966 and served in the Paratroopers Brigade. He fought in the Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, 1982 Lebanon War, and Operation Entebbe with the paratroopers and Sayeret Matkal, an elite special forces unit. In 1998 he became the IDF's sixteenth Chief of staff, serving until 2002. He is of Iranian Jewish ancestry.
After leaving the army, he entered politics. He was appointed Minister of Defense in 2002, holding the position until 2006, when he was elected to the Knesset on the Kadima list. He then served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation and Road Safety until 2009. After becoming Kadima leader in March 2012, he became Leader of the Opposition, before returning to the cabinet during a 70-day spell in which he served as Acting Prime Minister, Vice Prime Minister and Minister without Portfolio. Kadima was reduced to just two seats in the 2013 elections, and Mofaz retired from politics shortly before the 2015 elections.
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