Maxine Fassberg

Maxine Fassberg was born in 1953 in Johannesburg

Maxine Fassberg was born in 1953 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Jewish parents from Europe. She lived in Israel for some years as a child, then returned to South Africa and finished high school there. She immigrated to Israel in 1975.

She studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a bachelor's degree in 1977 and a master's degree in chemistry in 1979. She then taught high school chemistry in Jerusalem. After she was turned down for a school principal post, she changed careers.

In 1983 Intel hired her as a lithography engineer at its Fab8 plant in Jerusalem. In 1995 she joined the team that set up Fab18 in Kiryat Gat, and she managed that factory with Alex Kornhauser from 2000 to 2004. She became an Intel vice president in 2004 and manager of Fab28 in 2006.

In June 2007 she became general manager of Intel Israel. She encouraged women, Arabs, Druze and Haredi Jews to enter high-tech. She left Intel in early 2020.

From November 2021 to November 2024 she chaired the board of Ayalon Highways. In July 2025 she was named chair of the Center for Educational Technology. She lives in Har Adar with her husband Joseph, a physician, and they have two children.