PROFESSOR DINA PORAT is the author of THE FALL OF THE SPARROW, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ABBA KOVNER (Stanford University Press, 2010, winner of National Jewish Book Award), VENGENCE AND RECOMPENSE ARE MINE- THE YISHUV, THE HOLOCAUST AND ABBA KOVNER’S AVENGERS GROUP (2019) and numerous other books. She is Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History at the Department of Jewish History, Head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, and holds the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Since 2011 she has served as Chief Historian of Yad Vashem.