Erez Aharoni

Erez Aharoni was born in 1957 in Ramat Gan

Erez Aharoni was born in 1957 and grew up in the Ramat Hen neighborhood of Ramat Gan. He studied in the science track at Ironi Tet high school in Tel Aviv. As a teenager he was a Scouts counselor and played sports.

He joined the Air Force and finished the fighter track of the flight course in 1978. He later flew with Squadron 131, the Hercules squadron, and took part in Operation Moses and Operation Solomon, which brought Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

After his release he studied law and graduated from Tel Aviv University in 1983. With friends he founded the firm Zisman, Aharoni, Gayer and Co., which has offices in Israel, the United States, China, India and Europe. He is a managing partner and works in real estate, litigation, banking and media law.

In 2004 his story Longings won first place in the Uriel Ofek short story competition. His first book, Half a Mustache, came out in 2006 from Maariv, followed by The Secret of the Vulture from Kinneret Zmora-Bitan. In 2011 he published Fire in a Field of Thorns.