Nir has a professional background that spans thirty years of service in the fields of Military Special Operations, Policing/Law Enforcement, and High-Risk Security Operations between Israel, Canada, and the United States.
In Israel, Nir served in the Israeli Defense Force/Special Forces Counter Terror Unit, which is also the IDF’s Counter Terror School. During his service he held several positions including Commander of the Counter-Terror School’s International Joint Forces Training Missions Section where he was responsible for developing and delivering specialized Counter-Terror Warfare, Hostage Rescue, and Krav Maga
training to Special Forces Units from various countries around the world, including the United States Special Operations Command, that would attend the IDF’s Counter-Terror School in preparation for high risk deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan for the Global War on Terror.
He held the position of Lead Instructor on the Counter-Terror School’s Hostage Rescue Section, where he was responsible for training the IDF’s Hostage Rescue Units in all areas of Counter-Terror warfare and Hostage Rescue including Hostage Rescue Operations in domestic and foreign/hostile environments, Close-Quarters-Combat, Aircraft, Ship, Train, and Bus Interdiction, Suicide Bomber recognition and engagement, Urban Warfare, Tactical Shooting, Escape and Evasion, and Krav Maga.
Nir was also assigned to the Counter Terror School’s Chief Instruction and Research and Development Section where he was responsible for enhancing and developing operational Counter Terror Tactics, Techniques, Protocols and methodologies that are currently deployed by all Israeli Special Forces Units. Some of the TTP’s/methodologies he developed or enhanced for the Counter Terror School include: Active Shooter Intervention in open terrain, Fighting in Built Up/Urban areas, and Deployment of the Ballistic Shield in Urban Warfare. His duties in this section also included training the School’s instructors as well as being appointed as the Counter Terror School’s Subject Matter Expert for Active Terror Attack Intervention.
He was an Operational Team Leader on the Counter-Terror Unit during high-risk deployments which included: Active terror attack interventions, Response to Hostage incidents, Arrests of high threat terrorists, and high-risk entries and searches throughout the West Bank and Gaza regions. During War-Time Designation Nir was additionally tasked as the Unit’s M72 66mm Light Anti-Tank Weapon Operator.
In April 2009, Nir was decorated with the Distinguished Service Award by the Israeli Defense Force Ground Forces Command and the Israeli Defense Force Special Qualifications Command for his exemplary service and accomplishments.
During the IDF’s Operation Swords of Iron (the Israel-Hamas war which began Oct 7/2023), Nir was deployed multiple times in active reserve duty in front-line combat. He was first assigned to a Light Infantry Unit that specializes in Urban Warfare in the Judea Samaria/West Bank region responsible for carrying out counter terror, patrol, and security operations across Hebron.
During this time, Nir carried out dozens of High-Risk Search and Arrest missions targeting wanted Hamas terrorists, raids on Hamas weapons cache locations, and rapid responses to active terror attacks including active terror shooting and stabbing incidents, vehicle ramming attacks, and suicide bomber threats.
On his subsequent deployments, Nir served between two Special Forces Commando Units carrying out High Risk operations targeting Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror operations, including locating and destroying terror strongholds and tunnels, and searching for hostages.
In Canada, Nir served on a Nuclear Tactical/SWAT Unit, as a Patrol Constable with a Transit Authority, a sworn Police Constable working as a Use of Force and Tactical Instructor for a major Police Academy, and he is currently the appointed Managing Director of the Canadian Tactical Officers Association. In the United States, Nir is a sworn Reserve Deputy Sheriff assigned to his Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Division.
For over twenty-five years Nir has also worked in the Close Protection field in various capacities including planning and commanding the security details for Government officials (including Israeli and Canadian Ministers), corporate executives, celebrities, and political figures who were targeted for assassination globally.
Since 2010, Nir has been retained numerous times to carry out rescue operations around the world on varying cases which included the planning for the rescue of three major vessels and their crews that were taken captive by maritime terrorists and held hostage in the horn of Africa as well as cases of children and women that were abducted and held captive in high risk foreign countries where the Canadian or U.S. authorities had no jurisdiction and/or capabilities in locating and rescuing the captives. On every single case that he was retained for, Nir has successfully rescued the captives and brought them home to their families.
Nir is a certified Police Use of Force Instructor and Tactical/SWAT Operator in both the United States and Canada. He also has a Martial Arts background of over forty years and holds a 5th Degree Black Belt in Krav Maga, a 3rd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, a 1st Degree Black Belt in Hap Ki Do, and he’s a Jeet Kune Do/Filipino Martial Arts Instructor.
He has been retained as a Subject Matter Expert/Expert Witness to consult on legal cases in Canada and the United States on matters relating to Police Officer Involved Shooting incidents and Tactical applications and he appears regularly on national news segments providing expert insight on global events related to terrorism and Police tactics and training. To date, Nir has officially trained tens of thousands of Police Officers, Soldiers, and Security Agents around the world in subject matters ranging from Use of Force applications and Solo Officer Active Shooter Intervention to Tactical/SWAT, Counter Terror, and Hostage Rescue Operations. His TTP’s/methodologies have been officially adopted by major Agencies/Institutions such as the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the FBI.