David Shimron

David Shimron was born in 1951 in Jerusalem

David Shimron was born in Jerusalem in 1951 and grew up in the Talbiyeh neighborhood. His father, Erwin Shimron, was Israel's second State Attorney and later opened a private law firm. He attended the Boyar school and chaired the city's student council.

He served as an armor officer in the IDF and was wounded in the Yom Kippur War. After recovering, he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and finished in 1977. He interned with lawyer Dan Avi-Yitzhak and at the State Attorney's Office, then joined his father's firm, where he became a senior partner.

His practice covers civil and commercial law, including real estate, energy and infrastructure. He worked on tenders for private power plants after the 1996 Electricity Sector Law. He has served on the boards of bodies such as the Jerusalem Theater and Binyanei HaUma.

Shimron is a second cousin of Netanyahu and became one of his lawyers in 1988. In 2015 he headed Likud's coalition negotiating team. He was questioned in the submarine affair, known as Case 3000, and in May 2021 the State Attorney's Office closed the case against him.

He won defamation suits against Moshe Ya'alon and David Artzi in 2023. He is married to Audrey Shimron, has 4 children and lives in Caesarea.