He then returned to the navy and served on a missile boat (including a position as deputy-commander of INS Keshet) and again in Shayetet 13. In the 1980s, after six years of active service, he moved to Alaska and worked as a lumberjack. Gallant began his military career in 1977 as a naval commando in Shayetet 13. Although his appointment was approved by the government it was overturned due to allegations of building of an unauthorized access road to his home and planting an olive grove on public land outside the boundaries of his property. In 2011, Gallant was tapped to succeed Gabi Ashkenazi as the Chief of General Staff by Defense Minister Ehud Barak. He is married to Claudine, a retired IDF lieutenant colonel. He received a BA in Business and Finance Management from the University of Haifa. In Gallant's youth, the family moved to Givatayim, where he studied at David Kalai high school. He participated in Operation Yoav, during which he was the first soldier to break into the fort at Iraq Suwaydan. He served in the Givati Brigade in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, including the Samson's Foxes unit, and was considered one of the finest snipers in the IDF. His father, Michael, fought the Nazis as a partisan in the forests of Ukraine and Belarus, and also immigrated to Israel in 1948. Along with other Exodus refugees, she was deported by the British to Hamburg, and arrived in Israel in 1948. His mother, Fruma, was a Holocaust survivor who had been on the SS Exodus as a child. Yoav Gallant was born in Jaffa to Polish Jewish immigrants. Gallant also previously held the posts of Minister of Aliyah and Integration and Minister of Education. After being elected to the Knesset, he was appointed Minister of Construction. In January 2015, he entered politics, joining the new Kulanu party. He is a former commander of the Southern Command in the Israel Defense Forces. Yoav Gallant ( Hebrew: יוֹאָב גָּלַנְטְ born 8 November 1958) is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud who is currently serving as the Minister of Defense since 2022.
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