Giora Yaron

Giora Yaron was born in 1948 in Manara

Yaron was born in 1948 in Kibbutz Manara to Dan and Giza Yaron. His father was a professor and his mother a teacher. The family later lived in Kiryat Anavim and then moved to Rehovot.

He served in the Golani Brigade as a company commander after an officers' course. He earned a BA in physics and mathematics and a PhD in applied physics from the Hebrew University. As a postdoctoral researcher he studied the effect of nuclear radiation on electronic devices at Hughes Aircraft in California.

He joined National Semiconductor and in 1982 became head of its development center in Herzliya. He pushed for a factory in Migdal HaEmek, which opened in 1986 and later became Tower Semiconductor. In 1992 he became president and CEO of Indigo and led it to a NASDAQ offering in 1994.

He then worked as a serial entrepreneur and co-founded companies such as Comsys, Itamar Medical, P-Cube, Qumranet and Qwilt. He chaired the board of directors of Tel Aviv University from 2010 and sat on the boards of Amdocs and Rafael.

Yaron lives in Caesarea and has 3 daughters. His wife Zila died in 2024, and he set up a prize for Israeli artists in her name. Itamar Medical is named after his brother Itamar, who was killed in the Yom Kippur War.