Aviv Bar Zohar is a retired Israeli Air Force colonel with over 35 years of operational experience in air defense, UAV operations, and aerial command and control. He is a strategic adviser to the Defense Ministry and defense start-ups, and currently serves as a senior expert in Israel’s National Drone Initiative. A former program manager at Elbit Systems, he led C2 and counter-UAS development projects. Aviv is completing his PhD in law at Reichman University, focusing on the legality of lethal autonomous weapons under international humanitarian law. He lives in Kfar Yona, is married, and has two children.
