Yaron London

Yaron London was born in 1940 in Tel Aviv

Yaron London was born in Tel Aviv in 1940. His father was the actor Bezalel London. The family name came from a registration error that changed the original surname to London.

He studied at Herzliya Hebrew High School and at the agricultural boarding school HaKfar HaYarok. After his army service he moved to Jerusalem in 1961 to study graphics at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

In 1962 he began reading the news on Kol Yisrael and later hosted the program HaYom HaZeh. In 1969 he became the Israel Broadcasting Authority correspondent in Paris, and in the early 1970s he hosted talk shows on Channel One. He wrote for Yediot Aharonot from 1988 to 2007 and hosted the children's show "Mesibat Gan".

In 1991 he was convicted of assaulting a member of the Kach movement and was fined. On Channel Two he made documentary series, including "The Fat Man with the Sony". From 2003 he co-hosted "London & Kirschenbaum" on Channel Ten and continued alone after Kirschenbaum died in 2015, until December 2018.

He was married to Nira, and they had 3 children. She died in February 2010. He received the Sokolov Award in 2007.