Doron Avital

Doron Avital was born in 1959 in Israel

Avital was born on 22 January 1959 in the Brit Ahim youth village near Bustan HaGalil. He was the eldest of 7 children. His mother ran the village vocational school, and his family later moved to Jerusalem.

He enlisted in May 1977 and joined the paratroopers in Battalion 202, where he became a company commander. In the First Lebanon War he led the battalion's support company. He later served in Sayeret Matkal, became its deputy commander in 1989 and its commander from 1992 to 1994.

He studied mathematics and computer science and then history and philosophy of science at Tel Aviv University. In 2004 he earned a PhD in logic and philosophy from Columbia University, with a thesis on a book by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

He headed a school of high-tech management at Tel Aviv University. In 2006 he became director of the National Library but resigned within a year. He is also an adviser at the Evergreen venture capital fund.

He was placed 32nd on the Kadima list for the 2009 election and entered the Knesset in 2011 after Ze'ev Boim died. He lost his seat in 2013. He lives in Tel Aviv.