Asaf Rappaport

Asaf Rappaport was born in 1983 in Tel Aviv

Rappaport was born in Tel Aviv on 28 August 1983. As a teenager he attended the Alliance high school in Tel Aviv and began university studies at the same time.

Through the IDF Talpiot program he earned a bachelor's degree in physics, mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005. He later completed a master's degree in computer science at the Technion in 2012.

After the army he worked at the consulting firm McKinsey. In 2012 he co-founded Adallom, a cloud security startup that Microsoft bought in 2015. At Microsoft he led the cloud security group, and in January 2018 he became head of its Israel research and development center.

In 2020 he co-founded Wiz with his Adallom partners. Google agreed to buy Wiz for $32 billion in March 2025, and the deal was completed in March 2026.

Rappaport is openly gay and is active in LGBTQ causes, and he took part in protests against the judicial reform in 2023. He lives in Tel Aviv with his partner, and their twins were born through surrogacy in May 2025.