Moshe Alafi

Alafi is producer and director of ha-Edah, The Samaritans, a central element of the Israelite Samaritans Project of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, to premiere in 2022. He is a Senior Fellow of the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies.

2013 B’nai B’rith Award for Journalism for ‘Cool Communities’, broadcast on Channel 1. Documentary Film Prize at the Sole E Luna festival for “Naf – A Street Kid”.

Film Awards Ceremony, Maaleh School for Film and Television, Binyanei Hauma, 1996–1999.

Moshe Alafi completed his Bachelors’ degree in Communication and Business Administration at Champlain College, and Art studies at the Open University of Israel in Tel Aviv. Alafi has held an official Governmental press card since 1993. Today, he studies Arabic at the Intercultural Center at Mt. Zion in Jerusalem.

From 1990 to 1992, Alafi worked in educational television and Channel 1 as a researcher, and then at Channel 2 as a studio manager for educational programming. He simultaneously worked with industry figures such as Micha Shagrir, Dani Siton and Ayal Peled. Alafi began working as an instructor at Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts in 1993, and he is now the school's longest-serving instructor. He currently teaches courses in research and production; he previously taught studio production and was a final production project coach. Since 1995, he has served as, among other positions, the owner of Alafim Productions, which specializes in content creation for various clients across a variety of fields: documentaries and feature films, series and network series, festivals, tourism representatives, and films for museums in Israel and abroad. Moshe Alafi resides in Abu Ghosh and is father to four children. He previously lived in Beit El, Jerusalem and Mevaseret Zion. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, from which he ultimately recovered.

In 1984, Alafi moved to Yeshivat Or Etzion, where he studied for several years under the tutelage of Rabbi Chaim Druckman. He did his army service in the Hesder program as a platoon sergeant in the Givati Brigade. After completing his army service in 1988, Alafi continued his studies in the "kollel" of the Yeshiva while living in Kiryat Malachi. He performed his reserve duty service in military engineering. In 1990, Alafi began his studies in directing and producing for television at the Torah Institute for Education and Communications, where he would meet his future mentor and collaborator, Adir Zik. They would go on to collaborate on many projects, including a film about Zerach Warhaftig's activities during the Holocaust, a show at the Burnt House and coverage and broadcasts of the Israeli elections. Alafi began as a personal assistant and went on to become a producer, partner and director.

Moshe Alafi (born March 3, 1966) is an Israeli producer, director, and creator.

Moshe was born in Jerusalem in 1966, the eldest son of Menashe, a gardener, and Esther, a teacher by profession. He was followed by two brothers and a sister. Moshe's life began in Moshav Shoeva, where he lived until the age of two, after which he grew up in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood, the 11th generation of his family to have lived in Jerusalem. He was in the second graduating class of the Noam School in Kiryat Moshe, and at the Kiryat Noar High School, where he majored in Land of Israel and Jerusalem studies. During that period, he was involved in the Bayit Ve'gan Chapter of the Bnei Akiva youth movement as a camper, counselor and youth leader in the Tzuriel tribe.