Amira hass biography examples

Israeli journalist and author (born 1956)

Not to be confused with Amira Hess.

Amira Hass (Hebrew: עמירה הס; born 28 June 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Haaretz covering Palestinian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, where she has lived for almost thirty years.

Biography

The daughter of two Holocaust survivors,^[1] Hass is the only child of a Bosnian-born Sephardic Jewish mother, who survived nine months in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and a Romanian-born Ashkenazi Jewish father.^[2] In her own words, her parents "were never Zionists, but they found themselves in Israel as refugees after the Holocaust".^[3] Hass was born in Jerusalem^[4] and educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studied the history of Nazism and the EuropeanLeft's relation to the Holocaust.

Journalism career

Frustrated by the events of the First Intifada and by