Dina Kraft

Dina Kraft is a journalist, editor and educator. She is host of "The Branch", a podcast sponsored by Hadassah about Arab/Palestinian-Israeli coexistence in all its complexity. She is also a correspondent for both Haaretz and The Christian Science Monitor where she reports on Israeli and Palestinian politics, culture and society. Her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic and she is the former Israel correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Kraft was formerly an Associated Press correspondent based in Jerusalem and Johannesburg. She was a 2012 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a 2015 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.

Dina also has Antipodean roots - her mother is originally from Wellington, New Zealand and Dina is a proud New Zealand citizen.