Esther Knobel, born in Poland in 1949, emigrated to Israel in 1951. She lives and works in Jerusalem. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem from 1970-74 and at the London Royal College of Art from 1975-77, where she took her MA in Jewellery Design.
 
From 1985-91and 1999 -2004 she was a teacher at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. 1997-2005 she taught at the Design & Art Program , Holon Institute of Technology, Holon.
Awards include the 1994 Francoise van den Bosch Prijs, The Netherlands, the 1999 Ministry of Education Prize for Jewellery, Israel and in 2007 Andrea Bronfman Prize for the Arts (“Andy 2008”), Israel
 
Her jewellery can be found in the collections of many international museums such as Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; Craft Board of the Australia Council, Sydney ; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Museum of Art & Design (MAD), New York, USA: The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland: Schmuk Museum, Pforzhiem, Germany: Tel Aviv Museum, Israel.