Yaniv Iczkovits

Yaniv Iczkovits was born in 1975 in Beersheba

Iczkovits was born in Beersheba in 1975 and grew up in Rishon LeZion. His grandparents came to Mandatory Palestine after the Holocaust from Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania. One grandfather survived Auschwitz.

He enlisted in the IDF in 1993 and served as an officer in the Maglan unit. After his discharge he traveled in the Far East.

He studied in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program at Tel Aviv University and spent a year at Oxford University during his master's degree. His doctorate dealt with the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein on ethics and language. He taught philosophy at Tel Aviv University for 8 years and did postdoctoral research at Columbia University, where he turned his dissertation into a book.

In 2002 he and David Zonsheine started the Combatants' Letter, which declared refusal to serve in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. He spent a month in military prison for refusing further reserve duty in the territories. After the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, he returned to long reserve service.

His novels include Pulse (2007), Adam and Sophie (2009), The Slaughterman's Daughter (2015), Nobody Leaves Palo Alto (2020) and a fifth novel in 2024. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and 3 daughters.