Major General Gadi Shamni is the Israel Defense and Armed Forces Attaché to the United States & Canada.
Major General (MG) Gadi Shamni has been the Defense and Armed Forces Attaché to the United States and Canada since November 2009. From 2007 to 2009, MG Shamni was the commander of the Central Command, which includes Jerusalem and the area of Judea and Samaria.
In 2005, he served as Military Secretary to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and he later served as Military Secretary for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In 2004 he was the head of the Operations Division of the Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.) headquarters and in 2003 he was the commander of the Gaza Division.
In 2001 MG Shamni was the Chief of the Infantry and the Paratroopers. In 1999 MG Shamni served as the commander of the Paratroopers’ Active Duty Brigade after serving as the commander of the Paratroopers' Reservist Brigade.
He also served as the Battalion Commander of the I.D.F. Officers' School and as the commander of the Hebron Territorial Brigade. In 1989 MG Shamni was appointed commander of the Paratrooper's 890 Battalion. MG Gadi Shamni enlisted in the I.D.F. in 1977.
MG Shamni was born in Jerusalem in 1959. He 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 has three daughters and a son.