Yoram Karin

Yoram Karin was born in 1960

Yoram Karin was born in 1960 in Hamadia as Yoram Kostrinsky. His father Mordechai was the kibbutz farm manager, and his mother was Margalit. His grandfather was the agronomist Yaakov Kostrinsky.

He served as a combat soldier in Sayeret Matkal. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics and agricultural management from the Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot.

From 1990 to 2000 he was farm manager of Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin. He led a change in its structure that gave members shares in the kibbutz businesses. He also ran the Kfar Ruppin economic company, chaired Ruppin Fish, and helped found the Tnuva cattle plant, which he managed from 2003 to 2006.

He became deputy head of the Emek HaMaayanot Regional Council in 2008 and its head in 2009. He was reelected in 2013 and 2018, and in 2023 said he would not run again. Since 2019 he has headed the Kinneret-Amakim cluster.

He was a member of the Labor Party and joined Yesh Atid in 2017. He is married with 4 children and lives in Kfar Ruppin.