David Hodak

David Hodak was born in 1953 in Israel

David Hodak was born in Israel in 1953. His father was a Holocaust survivor who worked at the Israel Electric Corporation, and his mother was a homemaker. He grew up in south Tel Aviv and attended the Rogozin-Bialik school and the military boarding school near the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium.

He joined the IDF in 1971 and served in the Armored Corps, later as an instructor at the armor school. In the Yom Kippur War he fought in Sinai, organized the evacuation of wounded soldiers under fire and was wounded himself. He later commanded Battalion 198 as a lieutenant colonel.

He finished law studies at Tel Aviv University in 1981 and joined Yosef Gross in 1983, becoming his partner in 1986. From 1990 to 1992 he worked at Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York. He works in corporate law, tax law and capital markets.

He served on public committees of the Israel Securities Authority and in 2009 headed a Finance Ministry committee on credit risk for institutional investors. In January 2023 he became chairman of the merged firm Goldfarb Gross Seligman. In February 2023 remarks he made about the judicial reform caused a media storm and he was called for police questioning, and he later said his words had been misinterpreted.

He is married to Professor Ami Hodak, and the couple has 2 children.