Amos Yadlin is a former Israeli Air Force general, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) military attaché to the United States, and head of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate. He was one of eight pilots to successfully bomb Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. After retiring from the IDF in November 2010, Yadlin joined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as the Kay Fellow on Israeli national security. In November 2011, he was appointed director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies. He has written for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, among others, and provides frequent expert commentary to CNN, BBC, and National Public Radio. He lives in Washington, D.C.