Ehud Gross

Ehud Gross was born in 1946 in Jerusalem

Gross was born in Jerusalem in 1946 to Sarah and Yehoshua Gross. He grew up in Jaffa and Ramat Gan. His younger brother is Professor Eilam Gross.

He held a bachelor's degree in political science and musicology and completed a master's degree in international relations. He was also a chess master.

Gross served in the Armored Corps and fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He later commanded tank units and the Kiryati Brigade, and served as military attaché in Thailand, Burma, Nepal and the Philippines. In 1988 he became Chief Education Officer with the rank of brigadier general.

After leaving the army he ran the Jerusalem Theater until 1993 and later the Kasparov chess academy in Tel Aviv. In 1999 he became director of the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, and in 2004 chairman of the Channel 10 News board. In 2008 he was suspended after an internal complaint by an orchestra employee, and he later left his public posts.

In 2009 he became CEO of Mini Israel, and in 2011 director of the Netanya Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra. He was married with 3 children and lived in Hod HaSharon. He died of cancer in 2021.