Ido Rosenblum

Ido Rosenblum was born in 1976 in Jaffa

Rosenblum was born on 16 November 1976 and grew up in Jaffa. His father was the journalist and author Adam Baruch, and his mother was the photographer Ariella Shvide. His sister is the journalist and author Amalia Rosenblum.

As a youth he played basketball for Hapoel Tel Aviv youth teams. Following a coach's offer, he moved to New York, where he studied and played basketball in high school. He later returned to Israel, left basketball, and studied film at the Camera Obscura school in Tel Aviv.

He began on television in 1997 on the Kids Channel. In 2007 the film The Debt, which he co-wrote with Assaf Bernstein, was released, and an American version followed in 2011. He also wrote and directed sketches for Eretz Nehederet and founded 4dolfins Productions in 2008.

He has hosted many shows, including Cash Cab, Minute to Win It and Married at First Sight. He created the game show formats Boom! and Touch, which were sold abroad. From 2017 he hosted HaMirdaf, the Israeli version of The Chase, on Kan 11.

From 2009 to 2011 he wrote a column in Israel Hayom. In 2018 he and his sister made the film Memory Agents about their father.