Aviram Zino

Aviram Zino was born in 1980 in Jerusalem

Aviram Zino was born in 1980 in Jerusalem and grew up there. He began writing at 16 for his school newspaper.

He served in the Combat Engineering Corps as a fighter and medic, and later did reserve duty in the Home Front Command. He then studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was active in the student union and wrote for the student paper Pi HaAton. He later continued his studies in Kiryat Ono.

He worked for Nana news and as a freelancer for the British Sunday Times. In 2005 he joined ynet as legal affairs reporter in Jerusalem, covering the Moshe Katsav affair, the Winograd Commission and the Second Lebanon War. He was also spokesman for Arcadi Gaydamak's Social Justice party and later an adviser to the Israel lobby in Europe.

In 2014 he became Maariv's legal and crime reporter, and served as its military reporter until the end of Operation Protective Edge. In 2015 the Press Council's ethics court ruled that he had revealed police officer Efraim Bracha as a confidential source, and it issued a warning. He lives in Tel Aviv.