Oren Josipovich

Oren Josipovich was born in 1983 in Israel

Oren Josipovich was born on February 9, 1983, and grew up in Moshav Ben Ami. He is the eldest of 4 children of Ilan and Varda Josipovich, and his younger brother Guy became a professional basketball player. As a youth he played basketball for Hapoel Mateh Asher and swam competitively for Maccabi Nahariya.

He served in the IDF in the Oketz Unit. He later studied at Koteret, the journalism school of Tel Aviv University.

He began working as a sports journalist at Maariv in 2009 and moved to Walla! NEWS in 2012. At Walla he wrote match features, took part in studio shows before Maccabi Tel Aviv Euroleague games, and helped produce a ranking of Israeli soccer players. He also made video series on Hapoel Beersheba in 2015-2016 and on Hapoel Tel Aviv in 2016-2017.

In January 2016 he started the podcast HaPodium, first with Nitzan Livneh and from 2018 with Uri Ozen and Nir Tzadok. In 2020 it became a podcast network, and by November 2024 it recorded 32 podcasts. He is married to Noa Cohen, an artist from Amsterdam, and they have 3 children and live in Tel Aviv.