Asher Baharav

Asher Baharav was born in 1952 in Tel Aviv

Asher Baharav was born in 1952 in Tel Aviv. His parents came from Sanok and Boryslav. He was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement and graduated from the Netiv Meir yeshiva high school in Jerusalem.

Through the academic reserve program, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and computer science at Bar-Ilan University. He then joined the Intelligence Corps and served in Unit 8200, leaving as a major. During his service he was posted with his family to Dallas, Texas, for several years.

In 1982 he founded the software house M.T.I Computers, and in 1986 he founded Taldor. Taldor worked in software, communications and integration, merged 12 companies into itself, and became public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 1993. In 2006 he left its management and sold his holdings.

In 2007 Sheldon Adelson asked him to set up the daily Israel Hayom, where he served as publisher until 2018. In 2014 he led the purchase of the newspaper Makor Rishon. From 2000 he chaired, as a volunteer, the Quality in Rehabilitation association for mental health rehabilitation.

In his later years he co-founded startups in cyber and cancer medicine and served as a director at Malam Team. He was married to Leah and had two sons and a daughter, and lived in Ra'anana. He died in 2022 and was buried in Ra'anana.