Hanna Herzog

Hanna Herzog was born in 1946 in Mandatory Palestine

Hanna Herzog was born on September 12, 1946, in Mandatory Palestine. She is married to Professor Ze'ev Herzog, and they have 3 children, one of them the economist Chen Herzog.

From 1965 to 1969 she studied Bible and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later earned a teaching certificate. She then studied sociology at Tel Aviv University, writing her thesis on the newspaper Davar. In 1981 she submitted her doctorate there on ethnic election lists, supervised by Professor Yonathan Shapiro.

She joined the sociology department at Tel Aviv University and headed it from 1998 to 2001. She served as president of the Association for Israel Studies from 1999 to 2001 and edited the journal Israeli Sociology. She helped found the Women and Gender Studies program at Tel Aviv University and headed it from 2009 to 2014.

Her research covers political sociology, political communication and the sociology of gender, including minorities and Palestinian women citizens of Israel. She is active in the Israel Women's Network and the peace movement, and directs forums at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. A member of Meretz, she appeared on its Knesset lists several times.

In 2018 she received the EMET Prize in sociology. In 2022 the Association for Israel Studies gave her a lifetime achievement award.