Asaf Shariv

Asaf Shariv was born in 1972

Asaf Shariv was born on April 6, 1972. In 1990 he joined the IDF and worked as a reporter and editor at the military weekly BaMachane. From 1994 to 1995 he was a deputy editor at the Globes newspaper.

In 1997 he received a law degree from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. He then worked as a lawyer at the Weissglass-Almagor firm in Tel Aviv until 2002.

In 2002 he joined the Prime Minister's Office as an adviser to Dov Weissglass, Ariel Sharon's chief of staff. He took part in work on the understanding with the United States on the Road Map for Peace, and in a task force on issues such as the security fence route and the Gaza disengagement. He later directed media and public affairs for Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.

From August 2007 until 2010 he served as Israel's Consul General in New York. In July 2011 he became acting CEO of the Peres Center for Peace, a post he left at the end of that year.