Ezri Tarazi

Ezri Tarazi was born in 1962 in Jerusalem

Ezri Tarazi was born in 1962 in the Beit HaKerem neighborhood of Jerusalem. He attended the Yefe Nof school and the high school near the Hebrew University.

He completed a naval officers course and served in the Israeli Navy. He later trained cadets in the course, both in regular service and in the reserves.

Tarazi studied industrial design at Bezalel and graduated in 1990. He worked at Bezalel R&D and founded Tarazi Studio in 1996. He was among the founders of IDEO Israel and returned to run his studio in 2001.

He began teaching at Bezalel in 1992 and headed its industrial design department from 1996 to 2004. He founded its master's program in industrial design in 2003 and led it until 2012. From 2005 to 2012 he headed d-Vision, a program he set up for the Keter group.

His work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2005. In 2013 he published a book on innovation through design thinking. He later became a professor at the Technion, where he heads the advanced studies program in industrial design.