Michal Tsur

Michal Tsur was born in 1973 in Jerusalem

Michal Tsur was born in 1973 in Jerusalem. Her mother, Naomi Tsur, is an environmental activist and a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, and her father, Haim Tsur, worked as a producer at Kol Israel and is a violinist and composer. She grew up in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood and swam on the ASA Jerusalem team.

She studied law and economics at the Hebrew University and earned a doctorate in law from New York University. Her doctoral work applied game theory to economic and legal questions. She was later a post-doctoral fellow at the Information Society Project of Yale Law School.

She began her career as a clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel. In 1999 she co-founded Cyota, an online banking security company, with Naftali Bennett, Ben Enosh and Lior Golan, and it was sold to RSA in 2005. In 2006 she co-founded Kaltura, a cloud video platform, where she served as president, and the company was listed on Nasdaq in 2021.

In 2022 she co-founded Remepy, a digital health company that develops hybrid drugs combining medication with therapeutic software, and serves as its co-CEO. She sits on the board of the Israel Democracy Institute. She is married to Professor Eran Shalev, has 3 children including Yonatan Shalev, and as of 2020 lived in Zikhron Ya'akov.