Avshalom Kor

Avshalom Kor was born in 1950 in East Germany

Avshalom Kor was born in Tel Aviv in 1950 to Sarah and Shlomo Kor. He was named after his two grandfathers, Avraham and Shalom. His father was active in Betar among Holocaust survivors in Europe and later worked at Ma'ariv and the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

From age 13 he reported for the youth weekly Ma'ariv LaNoar and interviewed public figures on Educational Television. He studied Hebrew language and Semitic linguistics at Tel Aviv University through the Atuda program. He later earned a master's degree on the Yemenite Hebrew Tijan and wrote a doctorate on the poems of Yannai.

He served as an officer in the Armored Corps. In the mid 1970s, the IDF adopted his proposal to name a new multi-division force a gayis.

Kor joined Galei Tzahal as a reporter and news editor and became its language adviser. He has presented the Hebrew language segment Be'ofen Miluli on the station since the 1970s, and its television counterpart Higi'a Zman Lashon from 1987. He hosted the International Bible Contest for Jewish youth from 1988, with a break in 2016, until he retired from the role in 2022.

He is a member of the Government Naming Committee and joined Jerusalem's naming committee in 2016. He received the Sokolov Award in 1989 and the Prime Minister's Prize for the Hebrew Language in 2016. In 2018 he lit a torch at the 70th Independence Day ceremony.