Ziv Maor

Ziv Maor was born in 1984 in Israel

Ziv Maor was born in Israel on 18 February 1984 to a religious Zionist family. As a child his family moved to the moshav Hemed. He studied at Nehalim Yeshiva and later at Kinor David Yeshiva, and founded the Bnei Akiva branch in Beit Dagan.

He holds a bachelor's degree in management and political science from the Open University and a law degree from Sha'arei Mishpat College. He also earned a master's degree in Jewish history at the University of Haifa, focusing on American Jewry.

Maor was spokesman for MK Michael Eitan and later worked at TheMarker. He was parliamentary assistant to MK Uri Ariel from 2010 to 2012 and then spokesman of the Chief Rabbinate. From 2016 he led Israel's Media Watch, where he argued for closing public broadcasters and limiting state regulation of broadcast content.

In 2017 he became editor of Mida, and from 2019 to 2021 he worked as a lawyer and legal adviser to Im Tirtzu. He has hosted programs on Radio Galei Israel since 2017 and joined the presenters of TOV Channel in 2022. In 2023 he was appointed to the Council for Cable and Satellite Broadcasting.