Gilead Sher

Gilead Sher was born in 1953 in Mahanayim

Gilead Sher was born on 2 June 1953 in Kibbutz Mahanayim. On his mother's side he descends from the Baruch Mizrachi family, in Jerusalem since 1620. His grandfather Avraham Sher was killed fighting with the Haganah in the War of Independence, and his father Yoel Sher was an Israeli ambassador.

He grew up in the kibbutz, in Paris and in Jerusalem, and finished the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia in 1971. He studied law at the Hebrew University and joined the Israel Bar Association in 1981.

Sher served in the Armored Corps and fought in the Yom Kippur War. In the reserves he commanded the 8th Brigade from 1993 to 1998 and reached the rank of colonel.

He worked as a news editor and correspondent for Kol Yisrael and reported from Paris from 1981 to 1983. In 1989 he founded the law firm Gilead Sher, Talhami & Co. He took part in the Oslo talks, became Ehud Barak's chief of staff in 1999, and negotiated at Sharm el-Sheikh, Camp David and Taba.

Sher taught at the Wharton School from 2001 to 2011 and at Tel Aviv University from 2007 to 2013. In 2009 he co-founded Blue White Future, and in 2013 he became chairman of Sapir Academic College's board.