Ronen Tzur

Ronen Tzur was born in 1969 in Israel

Ronen Tzur was born on 27 July 1969 and grew up in the Morasha neighborhood of Ramat HaSharon. His mother Rika was born in Casablanca, Morocco. His father Shlomo was born in Poland and headed the workers' committee of Carmel Mizrahi.

Tzur served in the IDF as an optical technician at Training Base 20.

He joined the Labor Party in 1990 and coordinated its Knesset faction while Yitzhak Rabin was prime minister. He advised minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and headed an association for discharged soldiers. He entered the Knesset on 22 January 2006 after Salah Tarif resigned, and served in the last months of its term.

In 2004 he began working at Moti Morel's advertising firm and became a partner in 2007. In 2016 he sold his share after a dispute and opened his own public relations business in Ramat Gan. His clients included former president Moshe Katzav during his trial, and he ran the 2012 Histadrut campaign of Ofer Eini.

In 2019 he became an advisor to Benny Gantz and the Israel Resilience Party. During the Gaza war he advised the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, and stepped down in February 2024 after 45 families signed a petition against him. In 2026 he announced he would run in The Democrats primaries.