Ronit Matalon (Hebrew: רונית מטלון; May 25, 1959 – December 28, 2017) was an Israeli fiction writer.

Ronit Matalon was born in Ganei Tikva, Israel, the daughter of Egyptian Jewish immigrants.

Matalon studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and worked as a journalist for Haaretz newspaper, where she covered Gaza and the West Bank between 1987 and 1993.

[citation needed] Matalon was also a liberal social activist, and participated in demonstrations organized by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.

In 2003, she was a co-petitioner to the Supreme Court of Israel to investigate the assassination of Salah Shehade.