Hannah Kim

Hannah Kim was born in 1957 in Haifa

Hannah Kim was born in Haifa on 27 October 1957. Her father was born in Poland. She graduated from Hugim High School in Haifa.

She served in the IDF from 1976 to 1978. She later studied literature, history, film and art history at Tel Aviv University.

In 1978 she joined Al HaMishmar as a Tel Aviv reporter and later a political writer. She published reports on building violations and wrote children's stories. In 1986 she moved to Ha'ir, where she reported on Moshe Sharett's peace initiative and on Israel's trade ties with several countries.

In 1989 she founded The Hammer, a monthly on social affairs, and took part in the homeless movement. At Hadashot she founded and edited the weekly supplement Pressure, which won her a Sokolov Award citation. She also published a first broad investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu.

From 1994 she wrote a weekly column for Haaretz on the rule of law, judicial independence and the ties between capital and government. She left Haaretz in 2004. She received the Sami Michael Prize in 2021.