The IDF Military Colleges is a centralized educational unit of the

Israeli Defence Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branch ...

under the command of the

General Staff A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, navy staff, or air staff within the individual services) is a group of officers, enlisted and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military un ...

. Since 2019 its commander is ''

aluf ''Aluf'' ( he, אלוף, lit=champion or "First\leader of a group" in Biblical Hebrew; ) is a senior military rank in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) for officers who in other countries would have the rank of general, air marshal, or admiral. ...

Itai Veruv Itai Veruv ( he, איתי וירוב; born April 14, 1966) is a Major General (aluf) who is currently serving as the Commander of the Israel Defense Forces Depth Corps and Commander of the IDF Military Colleges. He previously served as Chief of ...

. It was established in 1991 by merging Israeli military colleges into a single unit. The first commander was

Yossi Ben Hanan Aluf (res.) Yossi Ben Hanan ( he, יוסי בן-חנן) was born in Jerusalem, Mandate for Palestine in 1945. His father, served as one of the top Haganah commanders in Jerusalem. During the Six-Day War Ben Hanan was a lieutenant, serving as th ...

. Currently the camp includes the

National Security College (Israel) The National Security College ( he, המכללה לביטחון לאומי, haMichlala l'Bitachon Leumi, variously abbreviated as MBL, MABL, MBAL, MABAL), also translated as the National Defense College is a military education institution in Isr ...

(MABAL), the

IDF Command and Staff College The Command and Staff College ( he, המכללה הבין-זרועית לפיקוד ולמטה), abbreviated he, פּוּ"ם, פום, PUM, also translated as Inter-Service Command and Staff College, Israel, is intended for the training of sen ...

(POM), the (MALTAK, MALTK), and the Noncommissioned Officers Command School (בית הספר לפיקוד לנגדים).

Location

IDF plan to move the military colleges from Glilot to Ein Karem

It is located at Dayan Camp, near

Ramat Hasharon Ramat HaSharon ( he, רָמַת הַשָּׁרוֹן, ''lit.'' '' Sharon Heights'', ar, رمات هشارون) is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south, Hod HaSharon t ...

. In 2010 a decision was approved to evacuate most of the Glilot camp complex, with the expensive land repurposed as residential area. Since 2002 there were different suggestions for the future location of the Military Colleges camp by

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. However no consensus between the IDF and civil organizations was reached for a long time. In August 2019 despite the appeals the location of 39

dunam A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...

(9.75 acres) in area within the government-owned public land was approved in the

Jerusalem Forest The Jerusalem Forest is a municipal pine forest located in the Judean Mountains on the outskirts of Jerusalem. It is surrounded by the neighborhoods of Beit HaKerem, Yefe Nof, Ein Kerem, Har Nof and Givat Shaul, and a moshav, Beit Zeit. The fo ...

at the Terrace Hill near the

Ein Kerem ar, عين كارم , settlement_type = Neighborhood of Jerusalem , image_skyline = Ein Karem IMG 0624.JPG , imagesize = 300px , image_caption = View of Ein Karem , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_ ...

neighborhood of Jerusalem and the

Israel Elwyn Israel Elwyn (IE) () is an Israeli nonprofit organization that provides services and programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It serves over 5,100 people from all age groups. The goal of the organization is to create a ...

Center (the latter location is still referred by its former name "Swedish Village" he, כפר השוודי, Kfar HaShvedi)."An appeals committee dismissed appeals against rezoning land designated for public buildings."
August 8, 2019

References

External links

Official website
{{authority control Israel Defense Forces Military education and training in Israel Educational institutions established in 1991