Air Control Mashak
מש"ק/ית בקרה אווירית
Role facts
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Minimum profile: 4545 and above (men: 64 and below)
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What the role is like
What you would be doing
the full text, nothing cutYou're part of the control team responsible for managing Israel's airspace — tracking aircraft, identifying threats, and syncing Air Force and civil-aviation activity in real time across a complex airspace. The work is technological, shift-based, and kept on high alert for scrambling aircraft and real-time events.
What it takes to get in
Men with profile 45–64 and women with profile 45 and above, Dapar 50 and above, Yom Ha-MEA: management and organization 2+, information processing 3+, teamwork 3+, effort and persistence 3+, sustained attention 3+, spatial perception 3+, a security clearance.
Training
Basic training 02, then a 10-week course, at the School of Flight Control at Uvda base.
Where you serve
In the Air Force's control units, closed-base.