Gad Haran

Gad Haran was born in 1954 in Jerusalem

Gad Haran was born in Jerusalem in 1954. He graduated from the Leyada high school.

He served in the Golani Brigade as a soldier and an officer and fought on Mount Hermon in the Yom Kippur War. In the 1982 Lebanon War he commanded a reserve company. After the army he studied engineering and earned a master's degree in business administration at the Technion.

He held senior management roles in Israeli industry and engineering firms, working on energy, desalination and power plant projects in Israel and abroad. From 2005 to 2010 he was CEO of Bateman Projects. He later founded a consulting firm for large infrastructure projects.

In 2009 he co-founded the Ami movement, which campaigned on social issues and took part in the 2011 protests. In 2012 he led the Social Coalition and was elected chairman of the Social Justice party, which did not enter the Knesset.

He wrote short stories about army life in Golani and later books of moral and political thought. He is married, has 4 children and lives in Haifa.