Eyal Ben-Reuven

Aluf Eyal Ben-Reuven (אייל בן ראובן; born 1954) is a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces and commander of the military colleges and senior field commander. He enlisted in the IDF in 1972 as a member of the Armor Corps. Reuven participated in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, fighting both near the Suez Canal and at the Golan Heights. He commanded an armor battalion the 1982 Lebanon War. While in the IDF Reuven graduated from the Command and Staff College and later studied at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He has also received a B.A. in political science from the University of Haifa.

Ben-Reuven was the deputy commander of the Northern Command in the 2006 Lebanon War.

After retirement from the army he became director of the Born to Freedom Foundation which works to secure the release of Israeli prisoners of war.