Ron Leshem

Ron Leshem (; born December 20, 1976), is an Israeli-American television writer and producer, best known for serving as executive producer on HBO's Euphoria, and for the film Beaufort, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He co-created and wrote the television series No Man's Land (Hulu), Valley of Tears, Euphoria, The Gordin Cell, and the film Incitement, in addition to his career as a television executive. He is also a bestselling author, translated to 20 languages. As a novelist, he has won some of the top Israeli literary awards, among them the prestigious annual Sapir Prize for Literature in 2006. Early life and education Ron Leshem was born December 20, 1976, in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family. His parents are Ziva and Gideon Leshem. News career Leshem served as a soldier in the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. Subsequently, he spent three years as an Israeli reporter from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, later on he was promoted as head of the news division at the most widely circulated newspaper in Israel Yediot Ahronot, for which he also wrote as an analyst for military affairs. By the age of 26, he started serving as deputy chief editor for Ma'ariv, one of the three major newspapers in Israel. He was the paper's youngest ever deputy editor. Additionally, he wrote short stories for Le Monde newspaper (France) as well as various columns in several European newspapers.