Harel Locker

Harel Locker was born in 1965 in Israel

Harel Locker was born on November 11, 1965, and grew up in Tel Aviv, where he attended Ironi Alef High School. His father, Martin, was a Holocaust survivor and Irgun member who came to Israel aboard the Altalena. His brother Yohanan Locker is a reserve major general and former military secretary to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

From 1984 to 1988 he served in the IDF in the infantry and combat intelligence, and left as a captain. He earned law and accounting degrees at Tel Aviv University and a master's degree in tax law from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

After finishing his studies in 1994, he worked in commercial law as an Israeli and New York attorney at firms in Tel Aviv and on Wall Street.

In 2011 Netanyahu appointed him Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, where he set up the Economic and Social Staff. He oversaw reforms in housing, food imports, dairy and natural gas, and set up the Digital Israel initiative and promoted the National Cyber Bureau. He announced his resignation in November 2014 and left in July 2015.

He later chaired Israel Aerospace Industries, and since 2021 he has chaired Paz.