Dov Alfon

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Dov Alfon (2014)

Dov Alfon (Hebrew: דב אלפון, born 1961 in Sousse , Tunisia ) is an Israeli journalist and writer . He was editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily Ha'aretz and the Kinneret publishing house. His debut novel Unit 8200 was a bestseller in Israel and was published in German in 2019.

biography

Alfon was born in Tunisia and first grew up in Paris . On his eleventh birthday, his family emigrated to Israel, where they settled in Ashdod . Alfon completed his military service as an intelligence officer in Unit 8200 , the unit of the Israeli armed forces for telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance. He began writing for a student newspaper in 1983 while studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . In 1984 he worked for the weekly newspaper Koteret Rashit. Alfon worked for Ha'aretz in leading positions in the culture department and in the magazine sector from 1989 to 2004. From 2002 to 2007 Alfon hosted a weekly cultural program on Israeli television.

From 2004 to 2008 Alfon was editor-in-chief of the publishing house Kinneret Zmura-Beitan Dvir. In 2008 he became editor-in-chief at Ha'aretz. He left this post in 2011. Today he is the newspaper's France correspondent and lives in Paris.

Roman Unit 8200

Dov Alfons first novel, the agent thriller Unit 8200 , was high on the bestseller list in Israel for 22 weeks. It was the best-selling book of 2016. In 2019, the novel was published in German by Rowohlt-Verlag . In an interview, Alfon stated that the writer's "fictional universe" explains "the world better than any newspaper article". Katharina Granzin from the taz judged: "... his insider knowledge went into his first novel in a very entertaining way". Although she accused him of serving man's fantasies, she summed up: "All of this is far from being super feminist - and despite all the swipes at the Israeli political establishment, pretty patriotic - but definitely super well written."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dov Alfon (Author information). In: Ha'aaretz. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dov Alfon Named as New Haaretz editor-in chief-. In: Ha'aretz. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Dov Alfon: Unit 8200. In: BRF 1. Retrieved on 12 September 2019 .
  4. ↑ German-Israeli Literature Days Friedrich Ani and Dov Alfon on truth, populism and crime writing. In: Deutsche Welle. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Dov Alfon and his lust for super agent clichés. In: taz. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Alfon, Dov
ALTERNATIVE NAMES דב אלפון (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Sousse , Tunisia