Writer & independent researcher

Daniel Fadlon grew up in south Tel Aviv, the son of a municipal engineer and a schoolteacher. He studied sociology and political science at Tel Aviv University, graduating in 2009. Before university, he served in the IDF Intelligence Corps from 2003 to 2006.

He began writing for English-language technology and urbanism publications around 2010, deliberately choosing to work in English at a time when most Israeli voices in urban policy were not. His work focuses on the gap between how cities are discussed and how they actually function.

His forthcoming book The Quiet Infrastructure (2026) examines how cities between 200,000 and 800,000 people modernize outside the spotlight of smart city narratives. He maintains the newsletter Infrastructure & Cities on Substack, with over 1,400 subscribers. He also writes shorter field notes and observations on the blog.

He has never attempted to publish in Hebrew. His argument is that the conversations worth having about cities are happening in English, in rooms Israelis rarely enter. He writes from Tel Aviv, where he continues to watch the light rail system he spent years writing about finally come to life.