Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal is a professor at the department of Hebrew Language and at the Language, Logic and Cognition Center.

Elitzur 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 (Spring 2012), the Jacob Perlow Visiting Professor, Yale University (2017-8, 2022-2023) and a short term visiting Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (2018-2019).

During the Fall of 2023 Elitzur is a visiting professor at the University of Chicago.