Eli Hurvitz

Eli Hurvitz was born in 1970 in Jerusalem

Eli Hurvitz was born in Jerusalem in 1970. His father Yair was Director General of the State Comptroller, and his mother Haggit was a professor of pediatrics. He is the eldest grandchild of Eliyahu Meridor and is named after him.

He studied at the Hebrew Gymnasium Rehavia and earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in history at Tel Aviv University. His M.A. thesis on the social profile of Hezbollah's military wing was published by the Dayan Center in 1999.

He served as an officer in the IDF from 1988 to 1999. He then worked as an aide to the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

From 2000 to 2011 he was deputy director of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild family foundation in Israel. He represented it on the committee to change the status of the National Library. In 2011 he set up and began running the Trump Family Foundation, which focuses on math and science teaching.

He has written a blog called The Fourth Generation and opinion columns on education and society. He co-edits a book series on teaching with Yoram Harpaz and hosts education podcasts. In 2024 he was elected chairman of the Israel Forum of Philanthropic Foundations.