Amira Hass

Author and journalist

Amira Hass is a prominent Israeli journalist and author. She attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and then has travelled widely during her early career. She joined the daily newspaper Haaretz in 1989, and quickly began reporting from the occupied Palestinian territories. As of 2003, she is the only Jewish Israeli journalist who has lived full-time among the Palestinians, in Gaza from 1993 and in Ramallah from 1997. She is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (2000) and Reporting from Ramallah (2003). Hass received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women's Media Foundation in 2009.