Amnon Lord

Amnon Lord was born in 1952 in Ein Dor

Amnon Lord was born in 1952 at Kibbutz Ein Dor to Kathy and Haim, and was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. His older brother Avner was killed in 1969 while serving in the Armored Corps.

He served as a signals intelligence officer in Unit 848 during the Yom Kippur War. He then studied film and television in the United States, returned to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv. He worked freelance in film and co-wrote the script of the 1982 film The Silver Platter with Yehuda Judd Ne'eman.

In 1984 he joined the newspaper Hadashot as a writer and editor, staying until the end of 1991. He later was a film critic for the local paper Tel Aviv. Once identified with the Israeli left, he changed his views in the mid 1990s and announced support for Benjamin Netanyahu before the 1996 election.

In 1999 he moved to Makor Rishon, where he wrote the column Against the Wind, and from 2004 to 2009 he was its acting editor. He wrote several books, including a political biography of Uri Avnery and a book on the Yom Kippur War. In 2017 he joined Israel Hayom.

He lives in Jerusalem with his wife, the writer Gail Hareven, and they have 2 daughters.