His father, Avraham Alsheikh, was a Yemenite-Jewish immigrant who came to Israel as part of Operation Magic Carpet, and his mother, Ahuva Amar, was born in Jerusalem to a family of Moroccan-Jewish origin.

[1] He lived in Jerusalem until age 8, when his family moved to Kiryat Arba, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

In September 2015, Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan announced Alsheikh's nomination to be the 18th General Commissioner of the Israel Police.

During his time as Police Commissioner, he oversaw criminal investigations into then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over corruption allegations.

Also, no indication was found that it used NSO's Pegasus without a judicial warrant to penetrate the phones of the names published in Calcalist.