Aharon Keshales

Aharon Keshales was born in 1976 in Tel Aviv

Aharon Keshales was born on 16 April 1976 in Jaffa to a Sephardic Jewish family. He grew up in Bat Yam.

After serving in the IDF Intelligence Corps, he studied film at Tel Aviv University. He later lectured there and earned a graduate degree in the interdisciplinary arts program.

He wrote film criticism for Ynet, Globes and Rating Magazine and ran the film blog Piranha Karina. In 2010 he released his first film, Rabies, which he wrote and directed with Navot Papushado. The pair followed it with Big Bad Wolves in 2013 and a segment of ABCs of Death 2 in 2014.

He worked with Papushado on the action film Gunpowder Milkshake but left the project in 2019. In 2021 he directed, wrote and produced his first American film, South of Heaven. He married Lilach Sonin in 2014, and the couple lives in England.