On 16 September 2020, Dov Alfon was appointed editor-in-chief and head of editorial strategy of the French newspaper Libération.

He published his first short story at the age of nine in the comics weekly Spirou while attending the College Henry IV in the fifth arrondissement.

Less than a year later, he was invited by Tom Segev and Nahum Barnea to join a new journalistic venture, the political weekly Koteret Rashit.

Alfon was chief editor of the Kinneret Zmora-Bitan publishing house (2004–2008) and hosted "Nispah Tarbut", a weekly cultural show on Israel's Channel 2 television (2002–2007).

[10] He was co-editor, with writer Etgar Keret, of a new international cultural venture aiming to mix literature and cinema in a new format.