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Avital Boruchovsky

Avital Boruchovsky is an Israeli chess grandmaster who won the 2014 European Under-18 Championship.

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Born: 15 March 1997, Rehovot
Occupation: chess player

Avital Boruchovsky was born in 1997 in Rehovot

Avital Boruchovsky was born on March 15, 1997, in Rehovot. His father Gil heads the Israel Chess Federation, and his mother Alina is an architect. He attended De Shalit High School in Rehovot.

He won the Israeli Under-10 Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2012 he took silver at the European Under-16 Championship in Prague, and in 2014 he won gold at the European Under-18 Championship in Batumi. He became a grandmaster in 2014 and reached a peak rating of 2565 in September 2017.

Since 2012 he has played in the national league for Hapoel Kfar Saba. He won the Israeli Under-20 Championship in 2017 and played first board for Israel at the 2022 Chess Olympiad. He is a member of the Israeli national chess team.

He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science and a master's degree in computer science from the Technion. As of 2025 he is a doctoral student in computer science there. He lives in Rehovot.