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Shay Kanot

Shay Kanot is an Israeli film and television director and screenwriter, known for creating and directing the crime series The Arbitrator.

born 1967The Arbitrator crime seriesDirecting Kicking Out ShoshanaThe telenovela HaMossad

Born: 30 August 1967, Los Angeles
Occupation: film director, screenwriter, television director
Education: Tel Aviv University

Shay Kanot was born in 1967 in Los Angeles

Kanot was born in Los Angeles in 1967 and moved to Israel with his family as a small child. The family lived on the Carmel in Haifa. When he was 13 the family returned to Los Angeles for 3 years, then his mother came back to Israel with the children while his father stayed in the United States.

He finished high school at Ironi Hey in Haifa, in a science track, and played water polo for Maccabi Haifa. He served 5 years in an IDF intelligence unit and left as a captain.

After a trip in South America, he studied film at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University, along with business administration. As a student he pitched a series idea to Yair Dori and created HaMossad in 1996, the first Israeli telenovela.

His first film, We Are Not Like That (1999), drew on his army service and won a prize at Yorkton in Canada. His films include Colombian Love, Kicking Out Shoshana with Gal Gadot, Ibiza and Four by Four. In television he created and directed The Arbitrator and directed Double and Pushers.

He is married to architect Tzameret Harel Kanot. They live in Tel Aviv and have 3 children.