Eyal Waldman

Eyal Waldman was born in 1960 in Jerusalem

Waldman was born in Jerusalem in 1960. His mother is a chemist and his father is an economist, and he has a twin brother. As a teenager he lived in Scotland with his family during his mother's postdoctoral program.

He joined the Golani Brigade in 1978 and served as an infantry officer. After the army he studied at the Technion, earning a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in electrical engineering.

He worked as a software engineer at Elbit and then at Intel from 1989 to 1993. He was vice president of engineering at Galileo from 1993 to 1999. In 1999 he co-founded Mellanox in Yokneam, which went public on Nasdaq in 2007.

Nvidia agreed to buy Mellanox in March 2019 and completed the deal in April 2020. Waldman left the company in November 2020 and founded the investment firm Waldo Holdings. He supports a two state solution and employed Palestinian engineers in the West Bank and Gaza.

His daughter Danielle was murdered with her partner at the festival near Re'im on 7 October 2023. In December 2023 he co-launched the Next October project with Izhar Shay. In 2024 he received the Israel Prize after a dispute over the education minister's attempt to block it.