Daniel Doron

Daniel Doron was born in 1929 in Tel Aviv

Doron was born Daniel Halperin in 1929 and grew up in Tel Aviv in a religious family. He was a descendant of Zerah Barnett, a founder of Petah Tikva. After finishing the Moriah school, he was sent to relatives in the United States and began to study medicine.

In 1948 he joined the Haganah in the United States and sailed for Israel on the Marine Carp. Lebanese troops took him off the ship in Beirut and held him at Baalbek until 30 June 1948. He then reached Israel and served in the air force, and later studied economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In the 1950s he worked for the Prime Minister's Office and advised the US embassy in Tel Aviv on a cultural fund. He wrote literary criticism for Haaretz and, with Avraham Yavin, translated works by James Joyce and J. D. Salinger into Hebrew. From about 1959 he represented the painter Shalom Moskovitz, known as Shalom of Safed, and organized exhibitions of his work.

He earned a master's degree at the University of Chicago in 1963 and lived in the United States until the early 1980s. There he raised funds for the Democratic Movement for Change. In 1984 he founded the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress, which campaigned for the free market and against monopolies and cartels.

From 1996 to 2021 he was a volunteer adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He wrote for The Wall Street Journal and The Jerusalem Post, and his book was published in 2022. He died on 28 February 2022.