Omer Meir Wellber was born in Be?er Sheva in 1981. He is the standing guest conductor at the Israeli Opera and has also been, since 2009, the regular conductor of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, founded in 1991 to help aid the integration of Jewish immigrants in Israel. Since 2011 he has been General Music Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia in succession to Lorin Maazel, where his contract runs until 2014. Wellber also appears regularly at the opera houses in Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Venice, Milan and Verona. 

October 23rd, 1981 in Beersheba (Age 43)