Zohar, now a teacher in a Waldorf school in Israel, served for 15 years in the elite unit "Sayert Matkal", as a combatant and commander. After the bloody spring of 2002, when hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians were killed in mutual violence, he refused to serve in the occupied territories. Zohar is married with one child.

At the age of 17 he was sentenced to 7 years in Israeli prison for belonging to the then-outlawed Fatah movement and for weapons possession. Beaten by soldiers in prison, he decided that he would not become a prisoner of hatred. He and his wife had six children, five remain.

Engineering graduate from MIT who founded the Rebuilding Alliance in 2003 to help rebuild homes and communities in conflict zones and make them safe.