Yaakov Zada Daniel

Yaakov Zada Daniel was born in 1979 in Holon

Zada Daniel was born in Holon on December 25, 1979. His mother's family came from Egypt and his father's family from Georgia. After his mother died, his father sent him and his 3 sisters to Kfar Nardim, a children's village in Arad, and his father later died as well.

He served in the IDF as a fighter in Shayetet 13 and then moved to the Duvdevan Unit. He studied at the Yoram Loewenstein Acting Studio. In those years he worked odd jobs and for a time lived in a trailer in an avocado orchard.

He began acting on screen in the 2000s and played in Bubot, Fauda from 2015, Hostages and Aleph, where he played a character based on President Moshe Katsav. He also acted in theater, at Tmuna, the Dimona Theater, the Haifa Theater, Beit Lessin and Habima. He received the Golden Hedgehog award in 2016 for the play The Settler.

He won Television Academy Awards for Aleph and for Night Therapy, and an Ophir Award for the film More Than I Deserve. Since 2017 he has been in a relationship with actress Yulia Schneider. In 2020 he joined the SOS association, which runs the village where he grew up.