Uri Korev

Uri Korev was born in 1967 in Jerusalem

Uri Korev was born in Jerusalem in 1967, the eldest son of Naomi and Maurice, an accountant. His religious Zionist family had immigrated from England to the Bayit VeGan neighborhood. He was a member of Bnei Akiva, studied at the Netiv Meir yeshiva and lost his mother as a teenager.

He served as a combat soldier in Battalion 890 of the Paratroopers Brigade. Afterward he worked as a security guard at the Israel Broadcasting Authority while studying law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he completed a master's degree with honors.

He joined the State Attorney's Office in 1996 and headed the criminal department of the Jerusalem District. He led the prosecution team in the Olmert cases and prosecuted the Abu Khdeir murder case, in which all 3 defendants were convicted. In a plea deal he was disciplined for remarks about judges made while teaching, and in 2017 a separate disciplinary case against him was closed.

He took early retirement in 2018 and became a partner at Tulchinsky Stern Marciano Cohen Levitski, where he founded a white collar crime department. In 2021 he joined the firm of Boaz Ben Zur as a partner. He represents defendants in public cases and comments on law in the media.

He is married to Dr. Aliza Korev Bonfil, a clinical psychologist, and they have 3 children. He lives in Jerusalem. Actor Lior Ashkenazi played him in the series Our Boys.