Dorit Dor

Dorit Dor was born in 1967 in Haifa

Dorit Dor was born in Haifa in 1967 to Shaya and Lea Dolinsky, who immigrated from Moisés Ville in Argentina in 1963. Her father managed a statistics department at the Israel Port Authority, and her mother was an architect who became an artist. She attended the Ben-Zvi high school in Kiryat Ono.

In 1984 she joined the academic reserve program and studied mathematics and computer science at Tel Aviv University. During her army service she completed a master's degree and, in 1996, a PhD in computer science there, on selection algorithms under Uri Zwick. She published research on graph decomposition, median selection and geometric pattern matching.

She served in Unit 8200 from 1987 as a section head and won the Israel Defense Prize in 1993. She left the IDF in 1995 as a major.

Shlomo Kramer recruited her to Check Point in 1995, when it was a small startup. She held product and technology roles there, overseeing product management, research and development and quality assurance, and became chief technology officer in 2023. She also sat on the boards of Redis, the Cyber Threat Alliance and She Codes.

In 2025 she founded the venture fund Qbeat Ventures with Maya Racine Netser, investing in early-stage quantum startups, and announced her retirement from Check Point. She is married to Tomer Dor, has 2 sons and lives in Hod HaSharon.