Career
Songwriting In 2000, his debut song was "Im Haiti Eloim" (meaning If I Were God) (אם הייתי אלוהים) which found some airtime on Israeli radio. He was just 18 at the time. After his military service in the Israeli Defense Forces, Dor Daniel started a songwriting career in earnest with his catchy melodic popular and rock compositions from 2005 to 2008, writing initially for Harel Skaat, who he knew while in the Army.
But it was with the song "Ahava ktana" אהבה קטנה meaning small love) on Shiri Maimon"s debut album that gained him huge fame.
lieutenant was a song he had written when he was very young and forgot in a drawer alongside tens of other songs he had written. With success of "Ahava ktana", came a contract offer from Helicon Records Chief Executive Officer Roni Baron for a songwriting deal.
Encouraged by the success, he wrote for Idan Yaniv, Hila Zaitun, Maya Bouskilla amongst others He also composed theme song "Time Tunnel" (מנהרת הזמן for the television series Mean Girls (ילדות רעות) an adaptation of an American teen comedy film.
Despite earning fame as a writer, Dor Daniel saw himself first and foremost as a performing singer-songwriter and started preparing for his own debut album, but put it on hold briefly after he passed a needed surgery on his vocal cords.