Eli Hurvitz (Meridor)

Between 2000 and 2011 Hurvitz served as the deputy director of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild Family Foundation, and previously as an advisor to the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Knesset.

[3] Since 2009, Hurvitz writes on social affairs and philanthropy for Israeli newspapers and in a blog, labeled, 'The Fourth Generation'.

Between 2000 and 2011, Hurvitz served as the deputy director of Yad Hanadiv, a philanthropic arm of the Rothschild Family, which created in Israel the new National Library, the Supreme Court Building and the Knesset, and established the Open University of Israel, the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Centre for Educational Technology.

The foundation is responsible for Israel's success to double the number of high school students graduating the advanced mathematics and physics majors ("five units").

In 2014, Hurvitz was appointed by the Israeli government as member of the National Board of Education, in 2019, he joined the Global Advisory Board of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, in 2022, he was nominated as a member of a Public Committee to expand the high-tech sector in Israel, and in 2024, he was elected as chairman of the Israel Forum of Philanthropic Foundations.