Hanna Safran

Hanna Safran was born in 1950

Safran was born in Haifa in 1950. She lives in Haifa and has 2 children.

She earned a BA in Jewish history and Bible studies at the University of Haifa in 1974. She began an MA at the London School of Economics but did not finish it, and later received an MA from Simmons College in Boston in 1995. In 2001 she completed a PhD at the University of Haifa on the influence of American feminism on women's suffrage in the Yishuv and the women's movement in Israel.

From 1987 to 1996 she worked at Isha L'Isha, the Haifa Feminist Center, where she helped found the Center for Feminist Research. She was among the founders of the Haifa shelter and hotline for women facing violence. She also writes in the press on feminism, sexual violence and political issues.

She taught women and gender studies at the University of Haifa, Emek Yizrael College and the Academic College for Arts and Society in Netanya until she retired in 2017. Her book on the suffrage struggle and the new feminism in Israel appeared in 2006. In 2004 she received the Emil Grunzweig Human Rights Award.