Yair Ansbacher

Yair Ansbacher was born in 1983 in Jerusalem

Yair Ansbacher was born in 1983 in Jerusalem and grew up in a family of four children. His grandfather Mordechai Ansbacher was the first director of Yad Vashem. He attended Netiv Meir high school and the Bnei David pre-military preparatory school in Eli.

He enlisted in the IDF in 2002 and served as a fighter in the Maglan unit. He fought in the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and later wrote about it.

He graduated from Lifshitz College of Education and earned a master's degree in diplomacy and security from Tel Aviv University. He received a doctorate from Ariel University for research on modern special forces, supervised by Ron Schleifer.

He taught at the AMIT school in Ma'ale Adumim and in 2011 founded the Eitan preparatory school in Mishor Adumim. He has been a fellow at the Misgav Institute and the Kohelet Forum and has advised bodies such as the Northern Command and Israel Police. In 2025 he announced a new party, Orot HaShahar, ahead of the elections for the 26th Knesset.

As a reservist he fought on October 7, 2023, including at Kibbutz Nir Yitzchak. He lives in Ma'ale Adumim, is married and has 5 children.