Yaron Kanner

Yaron Kanner was born in 1968 in Holon

Yaron Kanner was born in Holon in 1968. His father was a Holocaust survivor born in Austria, and his mother was born in Tunisia. He studied at Netiv Meir High School in Jerusalem and then at Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim.

He served in the Shimshon undercover unit during the First Intifada and later as a reserve officer. In the 1990s he was a news reporter for Israel Radio. He was among the first to report live that shots were fired at Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and before the assassination he had gone undercover in the Eyal group, where he met Yigal Amir.

In 1996 he had himself committed to Abarbanel Psychiatric Hospital for 4 days to investigate forced hospitalization. After his reports, the Ministry of Health set up a review committee and some legal requirements changed. He also worked in television and for Yedioth Ahronoth.

As a lawyer he headed the legal department of the Tebeka Association and fought discrimination against Ethiopian Israelis. He holds a master's degree in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a doctoral student in sociology in Poznań. From 2012 to 2013 he was CEO of the Kol BaRama radio station, then head of Panim.

In 2016 he founded the Hinam Center, which sends participants to live for long periods in different Israeli communities. In 2018 he founded a study house in Abu Ghosh. In 2023 he co-authored the book "Israeli Covenant".