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Anita Shapira

Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University

Since 1985, Anita Shapira has been a full professor, now emerita, at Tel Aviv University, where she served in 1990-95 as dean of the Faculty of Humanities and held the Ruben Merenfeld Chair for the Study of Zionism. In 2000, she was appointed head of the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel at Tel Aviv University. Since 2008, she has been a senior fellow of the Israel Democracy Institute. In 2008, she was awarded the Israel Prize in Jewish history. She is currently working on a biography of David Ben Gurion. She has won many prizes and awards, including, in 2008, the Israel Prize.

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