Daphna Baram

Daphna Baram was born in Jerusalem in 1970. She served in the Israeli army as a teacher for two years. She graduated with a law degree from the Hebrew University in 1995 and became a member of the Israeli Bar Assiciation 1996. She worked for 5 years (1992-1996) with Lea Tzemel, the human rights lawyer, mainly representing Palestinians in military courts in the occupied territories. She was (1996-1997) the editor of Mitsad Sheni ("On the other hand"), a Hebrew-language political magazine published by the Alternative Information Centre -- which also published the English-language News from Within. She worked in the Jerusalem-based weekly Kol Ha'ir for 5 years, as feature writer, commentator and News Editor. She was a fellow of the Reuters Foundation Programme at Green College in Oxford (October 2002-April 2003) and then a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford (June 2003-April 2004) a period in which she wrote Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel.

She is a daughter of Haim Baram. In the 1950s, her grandfather, Moshe Baram (1911-1986), was head of the Jerusalem Workers' Council; he also served as a cabinet minister in Yitzhak Rabin's first government.

See this October 2004 debate in the Oxford Union where, with Avi Shlaim, she supported the proposition that "American Foreign Policy is the greatest threat to Israel's security" against Greville Janner (Lord Janner) and Benny Morris.

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