Dorit Rabinyan

Dorit Rabinyan was born in 1972 in Kfar Saba

Dorit Rabinyan was born in 1972 in Kfar Saba to parents who came to Israel from Iran. Her father, Zion, owned a textile factory. She was the eldest of 4 children, and her sister Orly Rabinyan is a theater director.

She served in the IDF as a military reporter for the Bamahane newspaper.

She published a poetry collection in 1991. Her first novel, Persian Brides, appeared in 1995, followed by Our Weddings in 1999. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Shuli's Boy, which won an Israeli Film Academy Award in 1997.

Her 2014 novel All the Rivers tells of a love story between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man and won the Bernstein Prize in 2015. In December 2015 the Ministry of Education declined to add it to the high school literature curriculum, a decision that drew protests from teachers and principals. Sales of the book rose afterward.

She has also written children's books and hosted the program Shabbat Tarbut on Channel 2 in 2011. In 2025 she published Nine Singing Lessons. She lives in Tel Aviv.