Departures of note

Eyal Dotan was born in Ramat Gan on October 19, 1968, and lived in Tel Aviv from 1987. He earned his BA in philosophy and literature and MA in literature from Tel Aviv University, completing his PhD in 2001 with a dissertation on the phenomenology of coincidences. He became a senior lecturer in the literature department and interdisciplinary arts program at Tel Aviv University, also teaching at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and IDC Herzliya.

Dotan worked for many years as a language editor at Haaretz newspaper and served as a political columnist and culture journalist at HaIr. He wrote fiction and essay reviews for Haaretz's culture and books supplements and was a member of the editorial board of Theory and Criticism journal. His academic articles appeared in various publications in Israel and abroad.

He published three books: Etzem (2012), which won the Am HaSefer prize for its English translation in 2013; BeYachad uLeVad (2017); and Mikriut (2023). Dotan was also an amateur actor with guest appearances in television series and films, and a collector of Japanese vinyl Kaiju figures. He died on July 29, 2026, at age 57, leaving behind his wife and three children.