Biography
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 mother's father was Rabbi Yitzchok Yaakov Wachtfogel, the 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, the mother of his first son, Ido Rosenblum – a screenwriter and TV personality, and his daughter – the writer Amalia Rosenblum. He lived in Jaffa with his non-married partner, Shira Aviad, who is also mother of his second son – Itay Asher.
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