Opher Etzion

Opher Etzion was born in 1957 in Haifa

Opher Etzion was born in Haifa in 1957 and studied at the Hebrew Reali School. In his youth he performed stand-up comedy and wrote humor, satire, stories and rhymed poetry.

He began working with computers during his military service in the Israel Air Force, which started in 1975. He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 1981. In 1987 he went to Temple University in the United States for doctoral studies in computer science, and he received his doctorate in 1990.

After leaving the army in 1983, he joined the management of the software company that later became Sapiens. In 1990 he joined the Technion faculty and was the founding head of information systems engineering there. From 1997 to 2014 he worked at IBM, where he served as chief scientist of event processing at the IBM Haifa Research Lab and co-wrote the book Event Processing in Action with Peter Niblett.

From 2015 to 2019 he headed the information systems department at the Yezreel Valley College. Since 2019 he has headed the management information systems department at Zefat Academic College. In 2016 he founded the literary journal Bein Sagol Uvein Tchelet and serves as its editor in chief.