Colonel (Ret.) Adi Bershadsky

Adi served in the Israeli Air Force and served as the Head of Human Resource Planning Division in her last role – marking the first time that a woman served as a colonel in the Israeli Air Force. She was also the first woman in IDF history to serve as a military attaché and was posted in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. She has over 30 years of experience in strategic thinking, long-term planning, and leading complex systemic processes in the IDF, the defense industries, and the civilian sector. Since retiring from the IDF, she’s owned a private business focused on international business development in the fields of defense technology, agriculture, and medicine. She has 20 years of experience serving as a board director (including independent director) and member of executive boards in public, governmental, and private companies as well as NGOs. In most of these, she served as Chair of the Audit Committee. Among them: Israel Military Industry -IMI, Israel Aerospace Industry -IAI She actively serves in the IDF reserves and is a member of Forum Dvorah.

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