Asher Kravitz

Asher Kravitz was born in 1969 in Jerusalem

Kravitz was born in Jerusalem in 1969 and grew up in a traditional Jewish home. He studied electronics at the Kiryat Noar vocational yeshiva high school and at the Djanogly High School in Jerusalem.

He began his army service in a commando unit of the Armored Corps and finished it as a Krav Maga instructor. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics at the Hebrew University and a master's degree at the Technion. During his master's studies he joined the Israel Police and worked as an investigator in a national serious crimes unit.

After the police, he taught for 2 years at the High School of Arts and Sciences. Since 2000 he has taught mathematics and physics at the Academic College of Engineering in Jerusalem and at the Open University. He also taught literature to overseas students at the Hebrew University.

His books include the detective novels Magic Square and Boomerang, and The Jewish Dog, the story of a dog in a German Jewish family. From 1997 he photographed wildlife in Israel and Africa and joined an Israeli mission to set up a shelter for orphaned gorillas in Cameroon. He is married with 2 daughters and lives in Jerusalem.