GMEytan Rozen

Eytan Rozen's early chess development included Rishon LeZion's kindergarten program and its club training groups. At Yefe Nof School, he helped his team win the city's championship for the youngest primary grades two years running. He subsequently played for Kfar Saba and became an international master in 2020. At fifteen he won the 2021 Konstantin Lerner Memorial grandmaster tournament in Kfar Saba with six and a half points from nine games. He secured first place by beating grandmaster Semen Dvoirys in the final round. As Israel's under-eighteen champion, he helped the national team win European under-eighteen team silver in 2022. In 2024, at seventeen, he finished second in the Israeli Open Championship in Acre.