Israeli SF:
writers & books

Ami Dvir

Amos Kenan

Asaf Ashery

Assaf Gavron

Gavron is a novelist, short-story writer and translator. His fiction includes Hydromania, while his translations into Hebrew include work by J. D. Salinger and Philip Roth.

Assi Dayan

Avram Davidson

Davidson (1923–1993) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and mystery who served as a medic in Israel in 1948. His Israeli connection dates from that service.

Binyamin Tammuz

Boaz Izraeli

Boris Schatz

Dafna Feldman

Feldman is a Jerusalem-born author and poet who studied film, television and education. Her work has appeared in magazines and printed anthologies.

David Melamed

Israeli short-story writer whose first collection, Hyena in Corundy (צבוע בקורונדי; Tammuz, 1980), brings together futurist and science-fiction stories. The English title is a gloss of the Hebrew original.

Dor Rave

Dov Fuchs

Dror Burstein

Efrat Roman Asher

Elana Gomel

Gomel writes speculative fiction and scholarship on narrative, science fiction and posthumanism. She also co-edited With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature.

Elhanan Leib Levinsky

Emile Habibi

Etgar Keret

Keret writes short fiction and works in film. His compressed stories often let the uncanny interrupt ordinary life.

Eyal Teler

Teler studied computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked in software development. His story “Possibilities” first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 2003.

Gail Hareven

Hareven is an Israeli novelist, short-story writer, journalist and playwright. Her collection The Road to Paradise brought speculative stories into her wider literary work.

Galit Dahan Carlibach

Dahan Carlibach is a novelist and short-story writer born in Sderot and raised in Ashdod and Jerusalem. Her work combines fantasy, horror and humor.

Gur Shomron

Shomron is a writer and technology entrepreneur. His novel NETfold explores virtual lives and radically expanded subjective time.

Guy Hasson

Hasson writes fiction in English and plays in Hebrew, and also works in film and comics. His experiments with storytelling include Secret Thoughts and the comic Wynter.

Locus interview & profile

Hagai Dagan

Hagar Yanai

Yanai is a novelist, editor and translator. Her Leviathan of Babylon trilogy draws on Jewish and Mesopotamian mythology.

Hamutal Levin

Levin has written journalism on science, health and culture and worked as a translation editor. Her anthology story grew out of the early Israeli SF online community.

Hanan Steinhart

Hedy Ben-Amar

Hila Benyovits-Hoffman

Benyovits-Hoffman studied art, philosophy and gender studies and wrote the Hebrew blog “Van Der Graaf Your Sister.” Her story “Five Four Three Two One” won the 2015 Geffen Award.

Hillel F. Damron

Author of the Hebrew SF novel War of the Sexes (Domino Press, 1982), later translated and adapted by its author as Sex War One. The novel explores an underground society after nuclear catastrophe.

Iddo Gefen

Gefen writes fiction that bends everyday reality into speculative scenarios. His debut collection Jerusalem Beach appeared in English in 2021, translated by Daniella Zamir.

Jacob Weinshall

Keren Landsman

Landsman is a physician and science-fiction and fantasy writer. Her work includes the story collection Broken Skies and the novel The Heart of the Circle.

Locus interview & profile

Lavie Tidhar

Tidhar writes speculative fiction in English and has edited anthologies of world SF. His novels include Osama, Central Station and Unholy Land.

Lili Daie

Daie studied cognitive science and communication and has worked as a librarian and fiction editor. Her story “Where Books are Lost” won the 2008 Geffen Award.

Michal Peleg

Mordecai Roshwald

Roshwald (1921–2015) was an academic and writer who lived in Palestine/Israel before settling abroad. His best-known science-fiction novel is the nuclear-war narrative Level 7 (1959).

Mordechai Nessyahu

Mordechai Sasson

Sasson (1953–2012) was a Jerusalem-born chemist, painter and writer. He published science fiction in Fantasia 2000 and illustrated his own children’s stories.

Naama Bar Shira

Nadav Almog

Almog writes fantasy and founded the genre-news site The Fantastic Library. His doctoral research at the University of Haifa examined home and the uncanny in children’s fantasy.

Nathan Alterman

Nava Semel

Semel (1954–2017) wrote fiction, plays and books for younger readers. Her speculative work includes And the Rat Laughed and the alternate history Isra-Isle.

Nimrod Harel

Nir Baram

Nir Yaniv

Yaniv is a writer, musician, editor and filmmaker. His fiction includes The Love Machine & Other Contraptions and The Tel Aviv Dossier, co-written with Lavie Tidhar.

Nitay Peretz

Peretz studied screenwriting and worked as a documentary researcher, writer and director. His fiction includes the novella My Crappy Autumn.

Ofir Touché Gafla

Gafla’s The World of the End moves between afterlife fantasy, crime fiction and science fiction. The English edition was translated by Mitch Ginsburg.

Orly Castel-Bloom

Castel-Bloom is a novelist whose fiction brings the grotesque and the fantastic into everyday Israeli life. Her books include Dolly City and Human Parts.

Pesach (Pavel) Amnuel

Amnuel is an astrophysicist and Russian-language science-fiction writer who moved to Israel in 1990. “White Curtain” belongs to his Multiverse cycle.

Rafael Ruppin

Ram Moav

Rami Shalheveth

Shalheveth is a writer, translator and editor associated with Bli Panika and Israeli genre publications. “Dragon Control” won the 2004 Geffen Award.

Rotem Baruchin

Baruchin writes fiction, plays and screen narratives, with a particular interest in urban fantasy. Her work imagines magic within everyday city life.

Ruth Blumert

Savyon Liebrecht

Liebrecht is a novelist, playwright and short-story writer whose work often draws on psychological realism. “A Good Place for the Night” is one of her ventures into the fantastic.

Sayed Kashua

Shaharah Blau

Shimon Adaf

Adaf is a poet, novelist and literary editor whose fiction crosses fantasy, science fiction and detective writing. His books include כפור (Frost), Sunburnt Faces and the Lost Detective trilogy.

Locus interview & profile

Shlomo Erell

Sigalit Dill

Theodor Herzl

Herzl (1860–1904) wrote the utopian novel Altneuland (1902). His imagined future society is an early point of reference for this literary history.

Uri Fink

Uri Yitzhak Katz

Vered Tochterman

Tochterman is an Israeli SF and fantasy writer, translator and the founding editor of Halomot beAspamia. Her collection לפעמים זה אחרת (Sometimes It’s Different) won the 2003 Geffen Award.

Yael Furman

Furman writes short fiction and novels for young readers. Children of the Glass House imagines genetically altered water-dwellers in a future Israel.

Locus interview & profile

Yair Hasdiel

Yehoshua Granot

Yehuda Israeli

Yishai Sarid

Yitzhak Ben Ner

Yivsam Azgad

Azgad is a science journalist, writer, editor and art curator. He published science fiction in Fantasia 2000 and later worked in science communication at the Weizmann Institute.

Yitzhak Oren

יצחק אורן · 1918–2007. Hebrew writer whose philosophical and fantastic stories explore scientific ideas and their limits. His English collection The Imaginary Number (1986) was edited by Max Knight.

Yoav Avni

Avni is an Israeli novelist and translator whose fiction mixes speculative ideas, humor and mystery. His novels include Herzl Said, an alternate history.

Yoav Blum

Yoav Katz

Yossi Sarid

Zeev Ben-Yosef

Translator

Inbal Saggiv-Nakdimon