Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the School of Education's Educational and Child Clinical Psychology Program. He also serves as the chair of the Israeli Council of Psychologists. His main areas of research are developmental psychopathology, behavioral disorders and internalized disorders among children and adolescents, family processes, empirically-based systems-integrative therapy, medical psychology, and, trauma and resilience. Prof. Elizur holds a PhD degree in clinical psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, received in 1981.