Yehuda Grunfeld was born in Berlin, Germany in 1930 and immigrated to Eretz Yisrael (Mandatory Palestine) with his family in 1935. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics at the Hebrew University, and continued his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in 1958, he joined the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University.

His primary research areas included the analysis of corporate investment patterns, conceptual and empirical aspects of the aggregation Problem, and econometric Theory.
 

Yehuda Greenfeld drowned in the Mediterranean sea off Israel’s shoreline on July 16, 1960.