Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nurit Peled-Elhanan

Israeli academic

Date of Birth: 17-May-1949

Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel

Profession: writer, translator, pedagogue, human rights activist, university teacher, political activist, philologist, peace activist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Nurit Peled-Elhanan (Hebrew: ????? ???-?????; born 17 May 1949 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli philologist, professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, translator, and a human rights activist.
She is a 2001 co-laureate of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded by the European Parliament.
She is known for her research on the portrayal of Palestinians in Israeli textbooks, which she has criticized as being anti-Palestinian.
She has also criticized George W.
Bush, Tony Blair, and Ariel Sharon for fostering anti-Muslim views.