Ronen Hoffman

Ronen Hoffman was born in 1963 in Afula

Hoffman was born in Afula in 1963 to Yael and Michael, a farming family from the Jezreel Valley. As a teenager he joined the Scouts, and in 1980 he traveled to Europe with a youth delegation.

After his army service he studied political science and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. In 1999 he completed a doctorate at King's College London on the Syrian-Israeli peace talks.

He worked as an information officer at the Israeli consulate in Atlanta and as a personal aide to Yitzhak Rabin. From 1992 to 1994 he served on the Israeli delegation to peace talks with Syria. In 1996 he founded the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and became its first CEO.

From 2001 he lectured at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya on foreign policy, strategy and negotiation, and he advised Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. In 2003 he founded Kimama, a company running international summer camps in Israel.

He entered the Knesset with Yesh Atid in 2013 and lost his seat in 2015. He was named ambassador to Canada in 2021 and announced his resignation in January 2023, citing his opposition to the Netanyahu government.