Israeli commander
Orit Adato
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Orit_Adato.jpg/220px-Orit_Adato.jpg) Adato in 2014
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Native name
| ????? ????
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Birth name
| Orit Eliaz
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Born
| 1955 (age 68–69)
Kiryat Tiv'on
, Israel
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Allegiance
| Israel
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Service/
branch
| Army
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Years of service
| 1973?1997
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Rank
| Brigadier General
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Unit
| Women's Corps
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Commands held
| Women Teacher-Soldiers
Women's Corps,
Nahal Brigade
Women's Corps
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Spouse(s)
| Joseph Paz
Yehoshua Adato
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Other work
| Commissioner,
Israel Prison Service
(2000?2003)
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Lieutenant-General
Orit Adato
(
Hebrew
:
????? ????
, born 1955, birth name:
Orit Eliaz
)
[1]
is a former
Israeli military commander
and
Israel Prison Service
Commissioner. Capping a 24-year military career, she served as commander of the
Women's Corps
from 1997 to 1999. In 2000 she was appointed Commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, being the first woman to hold that post. She is the founder and managing director of Adato Consulting Ltd., and is an international consultant on prison management, prison security, prison
privatization
, and dealing with incarcerated terrorists and gang members.
Early life and education
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Orit Eliaz was born in
Kiryat Tiv'on
, Israel,
[2]
the youngest of three children and only daughter of Moshe Eliaz and Rachel Pardo.
[1]
She comes from the eighth generation of her family based in the country.
[1]
She was drafted into the
Israel Defense Forces
(IDF) in 1973.
[1]
She spent nearly all her
compulsory military service
at the Army 12th Corps training base for women, where she became a squadron commander, training officer, and platoon leader.
[2]
After her release, she married and moved to
Haifa
, but returned to a military career three years later.
[2]
At the
University of Haifa
, she earned her bachelor's degree in
educational administration
in 1987 and master's degree in
political science
in 1993.
[1]
She is a graduate of the
IDF National Security College
.
[1]
Military career
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Adato served in the IDF for 24 years at both the training and command levels.
[3]
She became the Women's Corps officer of the
Nahal Brigade
in 1990,
[2]
commanded the two central Women's Corps training bases from 1994 to 1995, and also commanded the Women Teacher-Soldiers unit.
[1]
In 1997 she was promoted to commander of the Women's Corps. At that time, the corps was being "radically reorganized"
[1]
so that women's issues would be handled at the command and corps levels.
[4]
Adato was instrumental in effecting changes in policies and attitudes toward women in the military,
[4]
and actively worked to increase the entry of women to higher military ranks, including combat commands.
[1]
[5]
In 1998, Adato was quoted as saying, "I see myself as heading an organization whose goal is its own demise".
[6]
The Women's Corps was dissolved on August 1, 2001 and replaced by
Chen
(
Hebrew
:
???
), which eventually was subsumed into the
General Security Service
.
[4]
As part of her position, Adato reported on the prevalence of
sexual harassment
in the military. In 1997 she noted that complaints of sexual harassment were up 20 percent over the previous year.
[7]
In 1999 she told the
Knesset
Committee on the Status of Women that while the actual number of complaints were down from 1997 to 1998, the number of incidents of physical or verbal sexual harassment that were reported to the military police rose 43 percent in 1998 over 1997, and 23 indictments were issued, compared to 16 the previous year.
[8]
[9]
In 1999 Adato served as a member of the Israeli delegation to the
United Nations
Committee on Women's Rights; she addressed the conference on "The role of women in the Israeli Defense Forces as a mechanism for improving the status of women".
[10]
Prison Service Commissioner
[
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]
Adato retired from the IDF with the rank of lieutenant general. She was the first woman to achieve a
three-star rank
in the Israeli military.
[11]
Her request to be assigned as an IDF military attache internationally was denied, but
Shlomo Ben-Ami
,
Minister of Public Security
, offered her the position of Commissioner of the
Israel Prison Service
,
[2]
[3]
which she held from 2000 to 2003.
[1]
She was the first Commissioner who had not previously served in the police force,
[1]
and the first female Commissioner.
[3]
[12]
She supervised a staff of 4,500 and managed a total inmate population of 12,000, as well as 2,000 prisoners in
community service
.
[1]
Adato's stewardship coincided with the
Second Intifada
, which brought 3,500
security prisoners
into the prison system.
[1]
During a hunger strike in May 2000, Adato participated in negotiations, together with the General Security Service, with the
Palestinian Authority
.
[1]
In her policy-making, she focused on the humanitarian treatment of inmates.
[1]
In line with Israel's policy to allow inmates to study for university degrees, Adato allowed security prisoners to receive the same benefit, although they could only study materials in
Hebrew
so their activities could be monitored.
[13]
During Adato's tenure, the
Ofek Prison
was opened to accommodate juvenile inmates.
[14]
However, no improvements were made in the conditions of confinement or in the overcrowding in the prison system, in part due to the influx of prisoners during the
Second Intifada
.
[15]
Adato brought more women into senior positions in the Prison Service. She installed female officers as commanders of seven of Israel's 21 prisons, and promoted one female officer to the rank of
brigadier general
, the first woman to attain that rank from within the service.
[1]
Other activities
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]
After leaving the Prison Service, Adato established her own consultancy firm, through which she has been recognized as an international consultant on prison management, prison security, prison privatization, and dealing with incarcerated terrorists and gang members.
[1]
[2]
[16]
She frequently consults with African and Latin American nations on these issues.
[16]
[17]
She also volunteers in organizations fostering Israel-U.S. relations, including
Partnership 2000
and the Israel Forum,
[1]
and writes and speaks on the topics of security prisoners
[18]
and prisoner release.
[11]
[19]
She advocates the release of security prisoners on a case by case basis, maintaining that "hard core" ideological prisoners cannot be rehabilitated.
[20]
Memberships
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Adato is the first international vice-president of the
International Corrections and Prisons Association
,
[19]
and in 2011 was awarded an honorary life membership.
[21]
She is also a board member of the
Council for Peace and Security
; a steering committee member of the Deborah Forum, which works for "the advancement of women in foreign policy and national security"; and a member of the
America?Israel Friendship League
.
[1]
[18]
Personal
[
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]
Adato married Joseph Paz, a mathematics instructor, in 1976. They had one daughter, and divorced in 1980. In 1984 she remarried to Yehoshua Adato, a restaurant manager and electronic engineer. With her second husband, she had one son and one daughter.
[1]
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.
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.
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.
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