Roy Edan

Roy Edan was born in 1980

Roy Edan was born on August 28, 1980, and grew up in Kfar HaRif. He finished Tzafit high school. He then studied photography and digital media technology at Sapir College.

He worked as a photojournalist for the Yedioth Ahronoth group and also made documentary films and video art. For 12 years he covered the Gaza Strip area as a photographer. Each year he followed and photographed starlings in the Negev, and his work appeared mainly on ynet.

He married Smadar, who came from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, and the couple moved there. On October 7, 2023, he photographed attackers arriving at the kibbutz by paraglider and sent the images to ynet before contact with him was lost. His body and his wife's body were identified on October 18, 2023.

His daughter Abigail was taken captive to Gaza and was released on November 26, 2023. His two older children, Michael and Amalia, hid in a closet and survived. He and Smadar were buried in Kfar HaRif.

In January 2024 he was given the Israeli Press Institute Award. In October 2025 the Yedioth Ahronoth group released a film in his memory.