Prof. Dina Porat is head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, where she previously served as head of the Department of Jewish History and of the Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies and held the Alfred P. Slaner Chair in Antisemitism and Racism. Since 2010 she has served as the Yad Vashem chief historian. Porat has received prizes for some of her numerous publications, including the National Jewish Book Award for her biography of Abba Kovner (Stanford University Press) and the Bahat Prize for her new book on Jewish revenge after World War II. She was TAU's Faculty of Humanities best teacher for 2004, received the Raoul Wallenberg Medal for 2012, is on the Marker Magazine’s 2013 list of 50 leading Israeli scholars and Forbes’ 2018 list of the 50 leading women in Israel. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia, New York, Venice, and Hebrew University. Her main research interests are History of the Holocaust, Zionism and the Jews of Europe, the "Final Solution" in Lithuania, and Jewish-Catholic relations since World War II. She served as an expert on Israeli Foreign Ministry delegations to United Nations world conferences and as the academic advisor of the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (now IHRA).
