Anat Biletzki

Anat Biletzki was born in 1952 in Jerusalem

Anat Biletzki was born in Jerusalem in 1952 as Anat Danieli, the eldest of 4 children of Daniel and Tzofia Danieli. She grew up in the United States and Canada, where she attended high school.

She earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science and a master's degree at Tel Aviv University. Her master's thesis on Aristotle was submitted in 1981, and her doctorate on the roots of pragmatics in English from 1500 to 1700 was submitted in 1987.

She has taught at Tel Aviv University since 1979, headed its philosophy department and its School of Cultural Studies, and founded a master's program combining philosophy and technology. She also teaches at Quinnipiac University and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Cambridge and Princeton. Her fields include philosophy of language, political philosophy, logic, Wittgenstein and Hobbes.

She has been active in groups opposing the occupation, including Ad Kan from 1988 to 1993. She joined the B'Tselem board in 1995 and chaired it from 2001 to 2006. She was among the initiators of the 2004 Olga Document and opposes defining Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.