About us


Defensive Shield Holdings 2008 Ltd. is a privately held company, established in 2007. It's founding fathers comprise of Brigadier General Gal Hirsch, Mr. Yaniv Adam, Col. (Ret) Dror Shachnai and Mr. Oded Shachnai covering as practitioners, the entire scope of knowledge and know-how in relation to organizational development and management. Defensive Shield Holding's core management is forged by world renowned experts, both from the practitioners’ and academic worlds. Jointly, they form a leading group of executives whose skills stretch from research, development and system analysis, to process and product implementation, together with prominent capabilities in specific fields of content. Moreover, as a part of its ability to realize potentials on the one hand, and answer challenges on the other, Defensive Shield Holdings has been able to build an assortment of strategic alliances.

Brigadier General Gal Hirsch (Res.)
Defensive Shield Holdings Ltd. was founded by veterans of the "Shaldag" ("Kingfisher") unit-the Special Forces unit of the Israeli Air Force.

The Company is headed by Brigadier General (Res.) Gal Hirsch, who served in the past as the commander of the unit, and comprises of a team of interdisciplinary experience from various fields of military service.

BG Gal Hirsch has had 25 years of experience in commanding infantry, paratrooper and commando forces, and has personally led special forces units, battalions, brigades and divisions in fighting Israel's rivals. During his military service he was critically wounded in an enemy ambush, was rehabilitated, and returned to the battlefield.

For a considerable period, while commanding the IDF's Officers’ School, BG Hirsch devoted himself to the education of the IDF Officers' Corps, developing military leadership and instructing and training its combat commanders.

He is regarded world-wide as an expert in strategic knowledge development, and has written numerous papers on doctrinal issues. He holds an MBA Degree from Tel-Aviv University and graduated from the Advanced Operational Course in the IDF.
AS J3 in the central command, BG Hirsch devised, planned and led the IDF in its large scale operation against terror – "Operation Defensive Shield". Following that, he was put in charge of the planning and establishment of the border-defense alignment opposing suicide-based terrorism, an operation involving the engineering development, advanced technological infrastructure construction and intelligence and operational capabilities for an area extending for hundreds of kilometers.

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