On August 10, the solemn ceremony of appointing Major-General Amikam Norkin to the post of Air Force Commander was held in the office of Lieutenant-General Gadi Eisenkot's Chief of Staff in Tel Aviv.
The ceremony was also attended by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Amikam Norkin will replace Major-General Amir Eshel, who held this post for four and a half years.
Amikam Norkin was born in 1967 in Beit Shearim in the Jezreel Valley.
In 1985 he was called to the IDF. In 1987 he graduated from the courses of a fighter pilot.
In 1988 he served in the 133rd Squadron. In the mid-1990s, he was appointed deputy commander of the 133rd Squadron. In 2000, in the rank of colonel - commander of the 133rd Squadron. Then he was appointed commander of the 253rd squadron.
During the Second Lebanon War - the chief of the Air Force operational command of Israel, participated in the operation "Mishkal Spugi".
From 2008 or 2009 to 2012 - the commander of the airbase Tel-Nof in the rank of brigadier general.
In November 2012, he was one of the commanders of the operation to destroy Ahmed Jabari.
Since 2012 - Head of Air Operations.
Since 2014, he was to be appointed chief of the Israeli Air Force headquarters.
On August 12, 2014, at the Kiriya military base in Tel Aviv, he took up the post of the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force of the IDF.
February 18, 2015 was appointed head of the planning department at the General Staff with the conferment of the rank of Major-General. A graduate of the National College of Defense, holds a master's degree in social sciences with honors at the University of Haifa