Dina Porat, a Tel Aviv University professor of Jewish history, served as head of the Department of Jewish History, the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, and the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism. She is now head of the Kantor Center for the study of Contemporary European Jewry (that includes the Moshe Kantor Database for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism), and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Since 2010, Professor Porat has served as the Chief Historian of Yad Vashem.
Professor Porat has written and edited a large number of books and articles on antisemitism and the Holocaust. Her biography of Abba Kovner, published by Stanford University Press, won the 2010 National Jewish book Award, and her most recent book on Jewish revenge after World War II won the Bahat Prize for the best Hebrew research in 2018. She won the 2012 Raoul Wallenberg medal, was a visiting professor at Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, Venice International University and the Hebrew University, and was awarded Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Humanities best teacher award for 2004. Professor Porat was a member of the Israeli Foreign Ministry delegations to four UN world conferences and served as the academic advisor of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, now the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (2005-2010).
