Eldad Fresher

Eldad Fresher was born in 1963 in Kiryat Moshe

Eldad Fresher was born in 1963 in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem. His father was a sales manager at the Paz fuel company and his mother was a kindergarten teacher. He attended the May Boyar high school.

He served in the IDF air defense array. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he met his future wife, Talia Lador.

He began working in the Accountant General's department at the Finance Ministry and later became personal assistant to Accountant General Eli Yones. He served as an embassy attaché in Jamaica and, from late 1993, as deputy Finance Ministry representative in the United States. Back in Israel he became deputy accountant general for finance, set up the department's finance division, and in 2001 was named the department's second in command.

In 2003 he was acting accountant general, but Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Yaron Zelekha to the post, and Fresher left the ministry. In November 2004 he became head of the financial division at Mizrahi Bank, and in August 2013 he succeeded Yones as CEO. He served until September 2020, when Moshe Lari replaced him.

In 2021 he became chairman of Quik Super Online and of the real estate company Gav-Yam, and of an investment committee at Phoenix Insurance. In July 2022 he also became chairman of Solegreen. He lives in Jerusalem, is married to former ambassador to Austria Talia Lador Fresher, and has a son and a daughter.