Eytan Schwartz

Eytan Schwartz was born in 1974 in New York City

Eytan Schwartz was born in New York City on June 6, 1974, and moved to Israel with his family at age 7. He sang in a children's choir and performed with the Israeli Opera. He studied drama at the Thelma Yellin High School and played the lead in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers.

He served 4 years in the army as an entertainment reporter for Galei Tzahal. He then joined a theater group in Paris and later earned a B.A. in anthropology at Columbia University.

Back in Israel, he worked as an editor and reporter on a children's news show and then as an entertainment reporter. In 2005 he won "The Ambassador" and began working for the New York group Israel at Heart. He was later spokesperson for the Committee for Advancement of Refugees from Darfur.

In 2008 he managed Tel Aviv's centennial celebrations, and in 2011 he became director of the city's World City and Tourism unit. He ran in Labor Party primaries but was placed in unrealistic list slots. From December 2019 to April 2022 he was spokesperson of the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality. He is married with 3 children and lives in Tel Aviv.