Yariv Horowitz

Yariv Horowitz was born in 1971 in Pardes Hanna-Karkur

Yariv Horowitz was born in 1971 in Pardes Hanna, the middle of 3 brothers. His mother, Aza, is a history teacher, and his father, Daniel Horowitz, is a playwright. He grew up in Binyamina and spent 3 years of middle school in Paris.

He studied theater at the agricultural high school in Pardes Hanna and film at Tichon Hadash in Tel Aviv. At 17 he made a short film with friends, and the army then drafted him as a director and editor in the Education Corps film unit.

After his release in 1993 he worked on documentaries and began directing music videos, including one for Assaf Amdursky that won an ACUM award. From 1996 he directed commercials for many brands in Israel, the United States and Eastern Europe. He also studied directing at AFI and screenwriting at UCLA.

His television work includes "Hartzufim", 15 episodes of "Ran's Quartet" and the documentary "Aftershock" about soldiers in Nablus. In 2010 he directed his first feature, "Rock the Casbah", set in the Gaza Strip during the First Intifada. It was nominated for 8 Ophir Awards and won the C.I.C.A.E. award at the 2013 Berlin festival.