Dina Porat, a professor at Tel Aviv University, is head of the Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies and of the Stephen Roth Institute and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. She is also a member of the Yad Vashem Scientific Advisory Board and of its board of the International Center for Holocaust Studies. Her extensive published work on issues related to the history of the Holocaust, to the Zionist movement as it relates to the Jews in Europe during WWII and to antisemitism, includes the first research on the Yishuv and the Shoah, the biography of Abba Kovner, and the TAU annual Anti-Semitism Worldwide.