Marsel Efroimski

Marsel Efroimski was born in 1995 in Central District

Marsel Efroimski was born on February 13, 1995, to parents who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. Her grandfather taught her chess in her hometown of Kfar Saba, where she lives.

She has competed internationally since 2007. She won the World Youth Chess Championship for girls under 12 in 2007 and for girls under 14 in 2009, and the European championship for girls under 14 in 2009. In 2008 she first played for Israel's women's team at the Chess Olympiad.

She served in the Intelligence Corps and studied for a bachelor's degree in statistics at Tel Aviv University. She has played first board for the Rishon LeZion club's women's team since 2013. Her coach is grandmaster Alon Greenfeld.

She received the Woman Grandmaster title in 2016 and the International Master title in 2021. She was the first Israeli-born woman player to reach that title. She won the Israeli women's championship in 2024 and again in 2026.