Avner Yashar Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2021, the ToHA building, designed by Ron Arad and Avner Yashar, won the CTBUH award for “Best Tall Office Building,” and “Best Tall Building Middle East and Africa”.

In 2020, Avner married Architect Adi Iny Yashar In 2021 she gave birth to Raphael Aharon. The couple lives in Tel Aviv.

In 2019 the construction of the Oranit Cancer Patient Guest Home in Petah Tikva was completed. The center, which was founded by the Bracha and Motti Zisser Foundation, was designed by Avner. The building’s construction, which stretched for a decade, was supervised, completely voluntarily, by Yashar Architects.

In 2018, Avner’s firm won two first prize awards at an excellence Competition of the Israeli Construction and Infrastructure Industry. Tel Aviv’s “Bezalel Market” project won the “Luxury Residential Complex” category, and Herzliya’s “Vitania House – Fedco” project won the “Best Office Building” category.

In 2017, after planning joint projects such as Totzeret HaAretz Towers (TOHA) in Tel Aviv and Bay 51 in Haifa, Avner established a joint firm with Israeli-Londoner Architect and designer Ron Arad, named AradYashar

In 2017, a lecture that was given by Avner at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design: “Residential towers as a way out of a crisis” was included in the book “Dreaming of a home – The ongoing housing crisis and high-rise construction in Israel” edited by Joshua Guttman and published by Resling Publishers.

In 2017, after the death of his wife Ronit Elkabetz, Avner partnered with Ronit’s brother Shlomi Elkabetz to initiate a Scholarship in Ronit’s name, named “Fearless.” This scholarship, which is also supported by the “Sapir Academic College” as well as several Film organizations, provides financial funding to daring and creative artists in the film-making field.

In 2014, Avner taught at the Tel Aviv University’s School of Architecture. In the same year, Avner published a study examining the urban connectivity of Tel Aviv. As a part of the study’s conclusion, Avner proposed to create main arteries throughout the city which would bear a single name in addition to building more bridges over the Ayalon highway which would further connect the separated eastern and western sections of the city.

In 2013, after his father passed away, Avner initiated the “Yashar Workshop” and the “Yashar Prize”, in collaboration with the Tel Aviv University School of Architecture. The “Yashar Prize” is a prize money awarded to an Architecture graduate student who has excelled in his/her degree project.

In 2011, Avner became the first Israeli Architect to win an Award of Excellence in the CTBUH (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat ) International Competition for Skyscrapers with two high –rise towers that were designed by him

In 2010, Avner married Ronit Elkabetz, actress and director, and in 2012 she gave birth to Shalimar and Omri.  In 2016, Avner Yashar was widowed after Ronit’s long battle with lung cancer.

In 2009 Avner won a competition for the design of the Metropolitan Development Authority building in Hyderabad city, India after defeating 10 firms (Indian and international). Of the four firms which reached the finals of the competition, Yashar’s project was selected.

In 2002, the plan for the Tzamarot Ayalon neighborhood in Tel Aviv, which was designed by Avner Yashar’s office, was approved. In this neighborhood Avner also designed four high-rise buildings:

Since 1997, Yashar has been the chief architect and owner of Yashar Architects. The firm currently employs 87 workers, including 76 Architects and 5 partners

In 1983, Avner married Michal Bahir and they have three children: Tut, Tara and Thai. They divorced in 1998.

In the late 1970s, Avner began studying psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Prior to graduating, Avner chose to change his field of study and in 1980 he commenced his studies in architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. After four years, he furthered his studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, where he graduated in 1986. During his years of study, Avner had already begun working with his father in his office.

Avner Yashar (Hebrew: אבנר ישר; born June 13, 1956) is an Israeli architect and the owner of Yashar Architects.

Avner was born in Tel Aviv in 1956. His mother was Rema Samsonov, an opera singer, a professor at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts and Honorary Citizen of Tel Aviv, and his father was the architect Yitzhak Yashar, winner of the Rokach Prize and Rechter Prize, who designed many buildings in Israel such as the “Tel Aviv Museum of Art”, “Mexico Building” at Tel Aviv University, “David Towers” and “Dizengoff Center.”