Ofer Grosbard

Ofer Grosbard was born in 1954 in Tel Aviv

Grosbard was born in Tel Aviv on December 27, 1954, and grew up in a secular Revisionist family. His father David came from Lithuania and commanded the Irgun's Tel Aviv district, and his mother, who came from Berlin, was a pediatrician. He attended the religious Bilu school and then the secular Ironi Alef high school.

He served in the paratroop Nahal and fought in the Yom Kippur War.

After the army he studied computer engineering at the Technion, finishing in 1982. He then earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Haifa in 1985 and a master's in child clinical psychology at Tel Aviv University in 1991. In 2004 he completed a doctorate in conflict resolution at George Mason University in the United States.

He was a research associate at the National Defense College and teaches in a diplomacy and security master's program at Tel Aviv University. His books include The Arab Within, which won the Israel Writers Association's book of the year prize in 2000, and a psychological biography of Menachem Begin based on his doctorate. He also wrote the four-volume Cultural Code series on cross-cultural education.

He is married to Hagar, a high school educational counselor, and they have 2 daughters. The family lives in Haifa.