Dina Kraft
ISRAEL
Dina Kraft is a Tel Aviv based journalist. She is Israel Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor and co-author of the best-selling book, My Friend Anne Frank; The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds, a memoir she wrote with Hannah Pick-Goslar. She is a host and founder of Groundwork, a podcast about Jewish and Palestinian activists and previously the opinion editor at Haaretz English. She was also a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem and then Johannesburg for The Associated Press and JTA's Israel correspondent. Dina has reported from over a dozen countries and was the recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard and an Ochberg fellowship at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, among others. She was a winner of the 2020 B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage.
SESSION INFO
SATURDAY 3.45-4.45pm
Anne Frank's Memory Keeper: Documenting the Story of Hannah Pick-Goslar
A detailed description of what it was like to collaborate with Hannah Pick-Goslar on her memoir in the final months of her life. Hannah grew up next door to Anne Frank and was one of her closest friends, their families and lives in Amsterdam closely interwoven. It was Hannah who first discovered the Frank family had vanished from their home in July 1942 and the two girls had a chance, short-lived reunion in Bergen-Belsen.
SUNDAY 10.10-11.10am
Arab Citizens of Israel, a Community in Crisis
The Palestinian Arab minority of Israel has plunged into a double crisis in the aftermath of October 7. There’s an atmosphere of fear amid an ongoing crackdown against Arab citizens of Israel who speak out against the war, prompting self-censorship and fears of being jailed and losing their jobs, as some already have. And within their towns and cities an epidemic of homicides rages on, reflecting a rise in heavily armed crime organisations and years of systemic inequality.
SUNDAY 11.30-12.30pm
From Trauma to Tomorrow: Panel discussion about Jewish and Israeli identity post-October 7th
Join Alex Sinclair, Linda Gradstein and Dina Kraft for a panel discussion chaired by local journalist Sapeer Mayron. They will each share their vision for Israeli society moving forward from October 7th. What are the possible ways forward after the war? What do Israelis want? How can Israelis begin to heal from collective trauma and pave a pathway to the future? And how is that future interconnected to the fate of their counterparts in Gaza?
SUNDAY 2.40-3.40pm
The Good Fight: Jewish and Palestinian Peace Activists Working for Change
A look both at "Shared Society" (co-existence) work within Israel in a post-October 7 reality where the belief that Israeli-Palestinian partnership is not aspirational, but essential and those activists tapping the tremendous pain of the moment to challenge political imagination and seek pragmatic, peaceful political solutions to forge stability and security where war has failed.