Eva Jablonka

Eva Jablonka was born in 1952 in Poland

Eva Jablonka was born in Poland in 1952. She immigrated to Israel in 1957.

She earned a bachelor's degree in biology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1976 and a master's degree in microbiology in 1980. Her master's research won the Landau Prize in 1981. In 1988 she received a doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for work on the inactive X chromosome in female mammals, and won the Marcus Prize for it.

She did postdoctoral work at a Medical Research Council laboratory in London and at the Hebrew University. In 1990 she received an Alon Fellowship and became a lecturer at the Cohn Institute at Tel Aviv University. She was promoted to senior lecturer in 1993, associate professor in 2000 and full professor in 2005.

Her research deals with evolution and non-genetic inheritance. With Marion Lamb she wrote books in 1995 and 2005, the second proposing four dimensions of inheritance: genetic, epigenetic, behavioral and symbolic. With Simona Ginsburg she published books on the evolution of consciousness in 2019 and 2022.

She is professor emerita at Tel Aviv University and was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in May 2025. She was married to actor Doron Tavori, has a son and lives in Jerusalem.