Gilad Shalmor

Gilad Shalmor was born in 1983 in Ramat HaSharon

Shalmor was born in 1983 in Ramat HaSharon, where he grew up as the eldest son of Irina, a media consultant, and Rami, an advertising executive. As a teenager he represented his city in the LEAD youth leadership program.

He served as a combat soldier in the Duvdevan Unit. Afterward he was a Jewish Agency emissary in the United States, and in 2006 he taught American teenagers at the Alexander Muss school in Hod HaSharon.

He earned a bachelor's degree in African studies at Tel Aviv University. In 2019 he completed a research master's degree in politics and government at Ben-Gurion University, with a thesis on Israeli policy toward Eritrean asylum seekers.

He started as a researcher on Keshet's morning show and became a reporter for the Channel 2 News website. In 2010 he became the Channel 2 crime reporter, a role he left in 2021 to make documentary series. He was attacked while covering a funeral in Jaffa in 2017, and was detained in Abu Dhabi in 2018 on espionage suspicion before being released.

He hosts a weekly radio show on 103FM alongside Doron Herman. From 2017 to 2020 he was the singer and guitarist of the band Alexandria. He was married to journalist Adva Dadon from 2017 to 2022, and they have a daughter.