Gadi Taub

Gadi Taub was born in 1965 in Jerusalem

Gadi Taub was born in Jerusalem in 1965 and grew up there. His father, Yitzhak Taub, fled Czechoslovakia in 1939, fought in the 1948 War of Independence and later became an economist, journalist and chair of the Israel Securities Authority.

He attended the Hebrew University Secondary School and served in the Israeli Air Force. He earned degrees in history at Tel Aviv University. From 1998 to 2003 he studied at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he received a PhD in American history.

From 1986 to 1998 he wrote and presented children's programs on Israeli radio and television. His novel for young readers, The Witch from Melchet Street, won the Ze'ev Prize in 2001. His novel Allenby Street became a TV series on Channel 10, and he co-wrote and directed the series Harem.

He has taught at the Hebrew University since 2003 and became a senior lecturer there. He has written columns for Maariv, Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz, which stopped publishing his articles in January 2023. Since May 2020 he has hosted the podcast Gatekeeper and founded Gatekeeper Production.