Gisela Dachs

Prof. Gisela Dachs is a Professor at the DAAD Center for German Studies within the European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with office hours held in the Faculty of Humanities Building. Her academic work integrates rigorous scholarship with extensive professional journalism experience.

Educational background:

• PhD in Communication, Tel Aviv University (dissertation: "news media consumption and identity negotiation among bicultural immigrants citizens in Israel")

Her research spans News Media, Journalism, Conflict Reporting, Digital Networks, Migration, National Identity, Israeli-German Relations, Projection space: Berlin, French-German Relations, and European-Israeli Mutual Perceptions. She has authored multiple books on Israel and the Middle East while maintaining active European lecture circuits on these topics.

Prof. Dachs serves as editor-in-chief of the "Jüdischer Almanach" for the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem since 2001 and edited the 2016 "Country report Israel" for Germany's Federal Agency for Civic Education. She contributes regularly to Swiss publication NZZ am Sonntag, Berlin's HAUPTSTADTBRIEF, and Austria's Wina magazine, while previously teaching "Cross-Border Journalism" at IDC Herzliya and "Media and Migration" at Tel Aviv University.