Michal Govrin is the Content Developer for the Yom HaShoah Hitkansut at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a writer and a Professor at Tel Aviv University. At The Van Leer Institute, she founded an inter-disciplinary research group that created the Hitkansut L’Yom HaShoah. Michal is a graduate of Tel Aviv University and has a doctorate in contemporary sacred theater from the University of Paris. She has published twelve books—poetry, novels, and essays—that have garnered many prizes