Yaron Kanner
Yaron Kanner () is an Israeli social entrepreneur and lawyer, as well as the director of the Hinam Center for Social Tolerance. Biography Yaron Kanner was born in Holon in 1968. He studied at the Netiv Meir High School in Jerusalem and later at Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim (today known as Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim). He served in the "Shimshon" undercover unit in the IDF during the First Intifada and then as a reserve officer.☃☃☃☃☃☃ In the 1990s, he served as a correspondent for Israel Radio's Channel 2 network and, was among the first reporters to broadcast live on Israel Radio that shots had been fired at then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.☃☃↵After working as a journalist, he began to study social law. As a lawyer, he served as the director of the Legal Department of the Tebeka Association and led legal battles against the private and institutional discrimination of members of the Ethiopian community. He was one of the attorneys which handled the legal struggle in the affair of the "Nezer Etzion" school in Petach Tikvah, whose students (except one) were members of the Ethiopian community. In 2012-2013 he served as CEO of the Kol BaRama radio station, following that he became director