Ami Dror

Ami Dror was born in 1973 in Tel Aviv

Ami Dror was born on March 5, 1973, and grew up in Ashkelon, the son of Aviva (Laskov) and Arie Dror. His father was a Holocaust survivor from Romania, and his mother was born in Israel. He grew up in a religious family, studied at the Sinai School in Ashkelon and was active in Bnei Akiva.

He served as a tank commander in the Armored Corps and later earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Open University. The day after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, he joined the Shin Bet's personal security unit, where he guarded Shimon Peres and led the security squads of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. He left the unit in 2000 and served with the Foreign Ministry in Dublin and Marseille until 2003.

In 2005 he cofounded XpanD 3D, which developed technology for showing 3D films and was used to present Avatar in 2009. In 2014 he founded the investment firm Zaitoun Ventures, and in 2016 he moved to Shanghai to found LeapLearner, which made coding software for children. In 2022 he founded BriBooks, which lets children write, publish and sell books.

He became a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute in 2014 and a facilitator in the program in 2018. In 2019 he published a book with Jordan Huang on educating children for innovation, and helped set up coding schools in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Kenya. In 2024 he began a podcast on leadership.

From January 2023 he was one of the leaders of the protests against the judicial reform. On July 18, 2023, he and 3 other protest leaders started a march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He is listed with The Democrats party in 2026.