Adam Baruch

Adam Baruch (Hebrew: אדם ברוך; April 9, 1945 – May 24, 2008) was an Israeli journalist, newspaper editor, writer and art critic. Baruch Meir Rosenblum (later Adam Baruch) was born in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Asher Rosenblum, was a lawyer, art dealer and active politically in Hapoel HaMizrachi. His maternal grandfather was Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Wachtfogel, head of the Mea Shearim Yeshiva and Av Beit Din for the Ashkenazi communities.

He was raised in Ramat Gan, completed his high school education at the Noam Yeshiva High School in Pardes Hannah and studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His first wife was the photographer Ariella Shvide, with whom he had two children: Ido Rosenblum, a screenwriter and TV personality, and Amalia Rosenblum, a writer. He lived in Jaffa with his partner, Shira Aviad, mother of his second son, Itay Asher.

He died from diabetes in 2008.