Amit Segev

Amit Segev was born in 1946 in Tiberias

Amit Segev was born Amit Frank in Tiberias in 1946 and grew up on Kibbutz Sha'ar HaGolan. His father, Yehuda Frank, was a Holocaust survivor from Nové Zámky, Slovakia, and his mother, Shoshana, was born in Haifa. He finished high school at the Bik'at Kinarot agricultural school in 1964.

He served in the IDF Combat Engineering Corps and fought in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. He was discharged as a major.

Segev studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a master's degree in geology in 1976 and a doctorate in 1986. His doctorate dealt with the geology of the Timna Valley and its copper and manganese deposits.

He joined the Geological Survey of Israel in 1975 and headed its mineral and energy resources division from 1992 to 1997. His research covers mantle plumes, magmatism in the Levant, the crust of the eastern Mediterranean and the Dead Sea fault. He has published more than 140 papers, maps and reports.

He spent sabbaticals at Heidelberg University in 1987 to 1988 and in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 2009 to 2010. In 2026 the Israel Geological Society made him an honorary member. He has 3 children and 6 grandchildren.