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Edit Doron

Edit Doron was an Israeli linguist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who received the Israel Prize in 2016.

1951 to 2019Research on Hebrew linguisticsSemantics and syntax researchIsrael Prize in linguistics

Born: 9 April 1951, Jerusalem
Died: 27 March 2019, Jerusalem
Occupation: academic
Education: University of Texas at Austin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Edit Doron was born in 1951 in Jerusalem

Doron was born in Jerusalem in 1951. Her mother was born in the Land of Israel, and her father came from Gallipoli in Turkey in 1935. As a child she lived in Morocco and France, where her parents worked in Israel's foreign service.

She finished the Hebrew University Secondary School and served in the IDF. She earned a BA and an MA in mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, then turned to linguistics in 1978. She received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983 and did postdoctoral work at Stanford University.

In 1987 she joined the Hebrew University faculty and became a full professor in 2008. Her research dealt with semantics, morphology and syntax, especially in Hebrew. She headed the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics twice and helped found a joint PhD program with Tel Aviv University.

She led research groups on the emergence of modern Hebrew and received the Israel Prize in 2016. She died of cancer in 2019.