Moshik Roth

Moshik Roth was born in 1971 in Haifa

Moshe Aharon "Moshik" Roth was born in Haifa in 1971 to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His father was Russian-Jewish and his mother Romanian-Jewish. He grew up in Eilat and later in Yavne.

After his IDF service he went to Eilat to study hotel management and met Els, a Dutch tourist. At 23 he followed her to the Netherlands. He first managed a pizzeria, then trained at De Librije and at Zwethheul near Rotterdam.

With Els he opened 't Brouwerskolkje, where he was chef and she was sommelier. The restaurant won Michelin stars and closed in 2012. That year he opened &samhoud places in Amsterdam, later renamed &Moshik, which received 2 Michelin stars and closed in May 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

His cooking is based on molecular gastronomy. In Israel he was chef of Toto in Tel Aviv in 2014 and a partner in the eight restaurant chain from 2016 to 2019. He has been a judge on the reality shows Game of Chefs and The Next Restaurant.

In 2016 he divorced Els and became engaged to Shiran Ben Shoshan, whom he married in 2017. In 2022 he was named to run the Amdocs dining complex in Ra'anana.