Batia Holin

Batia Holin was born in 1953 in Holon

Holin was born Batia Cahana in 1953 in Holon. Her father, Levi Cahana, worked in the security services, and her mother was Sarah Cahana.

In the IDF she served as a casualty officer in a reserve paratroopers brigade. She then earned a bachelor's degree in oceanography at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and master's degrees in planning and in administration and public policy. Her thesis won the Sapir Prize, and she taught geography at the university during her studies.

In 1975 she moved to Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where she later married a kibbutz member. She taught at schools in Kibbutz Sa'ad and Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, managed the Atidim project in the south, and in 2010 led the demographic growth division of the Or movement. She took part in founding about 10 new communities in the Negev and the Galilee.

As a member of the movement for the Western Negev, she lobbied on the region's security situation. In 2018 she testified before the UN human rights body in Geneva about events on the Gaza border fence.

Since 2010 she has photographed the paths of Kfar Aza and the Gaza border area in the project "Walking the Paths". In February 2023 she showed "Between Us" with a Gaza photographer known as Mahmoud, who on October 7, 2023 called her during the massacre seeking information on army movements. In December 2023 she co-curated an exhibition of kibbutz members' messages from that day.