A once in a lifetime opportunity to meet Major General Yishai Beer in Jerusalem and discuss or have him lecture on any topic of interest to the winner(s) including: Entebbe, Contemporary Israel or the IDF's history.
Major General Yishai Beer serves as a Major General in the IDF. Beer military career began when he was drafted in 1974 and joined the paratroopers' brigade. He took part in the 1976 rescue operation in Entebbe which freed Israeli hostages held in Uganda by Palestinian terrorists. He completed his mandatory service in the IDF in 1978 and continued to serve in the reserves rising through the ranks and combat commands until commanding a paratrooper's brigade (as a colonel) in 1995 and the Edom division (as a Brigadier General) in 2000. He also was then commander of the IDF's brigade commander's course. In May 2002 he joined the IDF's general staff when he was appointed President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals and promoted to Major General. In 2007 he was made Corps (3-5 divisions) commander and also serves as commander of the IDF's division commander course. Major General Yishai Beer was appointed as the Dean of the Readzyner School of Law at IDC Herzliya, as of the academic year of 2010-2011. He holds a BA from Hebrew University and an MA from the London School of Economics. He earned his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was admitted to the Israel Bar in 1985.
