Moshe Lehrer Tzadok (sometimes spelled Moshe Zadok; Hebrew: משה צדוק (לֶרֶר); July 1, 1913 - March 15, 1964[1]) was Haganah fighter and later an IDF major general, first head of the Manpower Directorate during the 1947–1949 Palestine war,[2] and head of the Israeli Northern and Southern Command during the early 1950s.

Tzadok was born on July 1, 1913, to Mendel and Nechama Lehrer in a small town of Żelechów near Radom, Poland.

[1][4] After completing his junior year, Tzadok continued his education in a vocational school sponsored by ORT in Warsaw, the capital of Poland.

[5] Tzadok continued to serve in that capacity with the rank of Aluf after the formation of the Israel Defense Forces on June 27, 1948.

[8] In 1957, at the age of 44 after passing the Bagrut he started learning at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at the Hebrew University.