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Dov Alfon

Dov Alfon is an Israeli journalist, editor and author who was editor in chief of Haaretz from 2008 to 2011 and was appointed editor in chief of the French newspaper Libération in 2020.

born 1961Editing HaaretzEditing LibérationThe novel A Long Night in ParisThe Captain Internet column

Born: 24 March 1961, Sousse
Occupation: journalist, writer, editor

Dov Alfon was born in 1961 in Sousse

Dov Alfon was born in Sousse, Tunisia, in 1961, and his family's original surname was Halfon. He grew up in Paris and published a short story as a child in the comics weekly Spirou. In 1972 the family immigrated to Israel and settled in Ashdod, where he went to school.

He served as an officer in Unit 8200 of the Intelligence Corps. In 1983 he began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and writing for its student paper, Pi Ha'aton.

In 1984 he joined the political weekly Koteret Rashit, and he later moved to Haaretz. There he edited the culture section, created the Galleria section and edited the weekend magazine. He also edited the Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir publishing house from 2004 to 2008 and hosted a cultural show on Channel 2.

He was editor in chief of Haaretz from 2008 to 2011 and founded the digital journal Alaxon in 2013. His thriller A Long Night in Paris won the CWA International Dagger in 2019. In 2020 he was appointed editor in chief of Libération, and in 2022 a Paris court convicted him of defaming Professor Jean-François Toussaint.