Ohad Knoller

Ohad Knoller was born in 1976 in Tel Aviv

Knoller was born in Tel Aviv in 1976 to a Jewish family. His mother is the journalist Judith Knoller. He attended the Thelma Yellin high school for the arts, and appeared on television at 14.

In 1994 he played a lead role in the film Under the Domim Tree, written by Gila Almagor. He served as a soldier in the Combat Engineering Corps. After his service he studied acting at the Nissan Nativ studio and performed at the Khan Theatre, including in The Miser.

In 2002 he played Yossi in Eytan Fox's Yossi & Jagger and won a Tribeca award for the role. He later appeared in Munich, The Bubble and Beaufort, and played Nati Brenner in the series Srugim. He returned to the role of Yossi in the 2012 sequel Yossi.

In 2009 he moved to Dimona with his family, where he and his wife, actress Noa Raban, founded the Dimona Theater. They were married until 2011 and have a son. In later years he played David Elazar in the series sequel to Valley of Tears and Ariel Sharon in the 2023 film Golda.