Tamar Eilam Gindin

Tamar Eilam Gindin was born in 1973 in Jerusalem

Tamar Eilam Gindin was born in Jerusalem in 1973 and grew up in Gedera. As a teenager she studied languages, among them Chinese, French and Arabic. At 14 she became interested in Persian and Iranian history after befriending a new immigrant from Iran.

She served in the Intelligence Corps. She earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics at the Hebrew University in 1997 and completed a direct-track doctorate there in 2005 under Professor Shaul Shaked.

She taught Persian at the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa. From 2005 to 2010 she worked on the Judeo-Persian team of the Friedberg Genizah Project and coordinated an international Middle Persian dictionary project. She is a research fellow at the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa.

She lectures and gives interviews in Hebrew, English and Persian on Iran, the Persian language and the Book of Esther. From 2018 to 2020 she wrote and hosted the podcast "Enriched Iranium". She also wrote a blog called "Hebrew and Other Animals" for more than a decade.

In 2006 she served as a surrogate mother for a woman with kidney disease. She lives in Kfar Saba and is a mother of 3.