Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal has a BA in Philosophy and Hebrew Language from Hebrew University (1999-2002, summa cum laude) and PhD from Harvard University (2009). He joined the faculty of the department of Hebrew Language at Hebrew University in 2010 after being the lecturer in Semitics at Yale University (2008-2010). He is also a fellow at the Language, Logic and Cognition Center at Hebrew University. Elitzur was a visiting professor at Harvard University and is currently the Jacob Perlow Visiting Professor, Yale University (2017-8).