Tamar Golan took her own life 30 March 2011, aged 77, at a hotel in her native Haifa. In a letter she left, which was made public by the Africa Center she established, she expresses frustration over recent political developments in Africa and the Middle East. She mentions "the downhill deterioration" in Ivory Coast and that Angola was still "corruption stricken". About the situation in the Middle East she says in her letter "I am tired of feeling like Don Quixote who tries to tilt at the windmills of deteriorating reality in this country". A close friend of Tamar Golan, who was with her among the first residents of Kibbutz Lahav, told "Haaretz" that Golan suffered from deteriorating health—"her body betrayed her, and she could not bear it anymore", she said.