Kobi Farag

Kobi Farag was born in 1980 in Petah Tikva

Kobi Farag was born on 31 August 1980 in Petah Tikva to Dalia and Ezra Farag. His family came from Baghdad in 1951, and his father and uncle founded the Photo Farag photography store. As a teenager he worked in the family's photo stores and labs.

In 1999 he joined the IDF Theatre, where he met Ilan Rozenfeld and Oded Paz. After their discharge the three created, wrote and starred in HaPijamot, which aired for 9 seasons from 2003 to 2015 on the Children's Channel. They also made spin-offs and the sketch show Our City.

He played Aharon Katz in the comedy Sabri Maranan from 2017 to 2025 and appeared in films such as Karaoke by Moshe Rosenthal. He acted at the Cameri Theater from 2014 to 2018 and at Beit Lessin from 2019. He has also hosted a weekly radio show on Army Radio since 2012.

In 2016 he released his first documentary, Photo Farag, about his family, which was nominated for an Ophir Award. In 2017 he founded a documentary studio with Maurice Ben Mayor. Later films include To Light Up Yossi in 2019, about Yossi Banai, and Queen Shoshana in 2021, about Shoshana Damari.