Ofer Yannay

Ofer Yannay was born in 1975 in Yavne

Ofer Yannay was born in 1975 and grew up in Yavne, the second of 8 children. His father, Mordechai, was born in Tunisia and was a religious high school principal. His mother, Toni, came from a family of immigrants from Libya and was a preschool teacher.

He went to a yeshiva high school in Nehalim and then studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion in the Hesder program, serving in the Armored Corps. He later earned a combined degree in physics, mathematics and computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also received an MBA from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

In 2001 he founded Go4Eat, an online food-ordering business that did not succeed. In 2011 he founded Nofar Energy, which first installed solar systems on kibbutz rooftops. The company later moved into energy storage and markets in Europe, the United States and Brazil, and was listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2020.

In 2023 he bought a controlling stake in Hapoel Tel Aviv, which won the EuroCup in 2025. In 2025 he became CEO of Nofar Energy. He chairs the Yannay Foundation, which supports education, healthcare and foster care.

Yannay is the father of a daughter and lives in Ra'anana.