Omri Yadlin

Omri Yadlin was born in 1959 in Tel Aviv

Omri Yadlin was born in Tel Aviv in 1959. His father, Asher Yadlin, was a figure in the labor movement, and his mother, Dalia, was the daughter of Eliyahu Golomb. Before the army he did a year of service in Kiryat Malachi.

He served in the Israeli Air Force as a Phantom navigator. He then began studying industrial engineering and management at Tel Aviv University but switched to law. He interned with attorney Dr. Yaakov Weinroth and earned his master's degree and doctorate at Berkeley.

In 1994 he returned to Israel and joined Tel Aviv University, where he became vice dean of the law faculty and headed the Fischer Center for Corporate Governance and Capital Market Regulation. His research covers corporate law, securities and the economic analysis of law. In 2008 he joined the appeal of attorney Israel Perry as counsel, his only case as a lawyer.

In 2009 he left Tel Aviv University to found the law school at Sapir College and became its dean in October 2009. He was president of the college from 2014 to 2019, then returned to Tel Aviv University and ran its legal clinics until 2026. He is married to Naama, a lawyer, has a daughter and a son, and sings in a rock band called Tzad Bet.