Allison Kaplan Sommer

Allison has been a journalist at Haaretz since 2012 and is a co-host of the Promised Podcast. She is the former Washington DC bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and has also written for the New Republic, Politico, and other publications. She won a 2016 B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism for Excellence in Diaspora Reportage and the 2017 Simon Rockower award for excellence in covering Zionism, Aliyah and Israel.

Originally from Rhode Island in the US, she made aliya in 1993, and lives in Ra’anana (alongside many Australian-Israelis) with her husband and children, one of whom is serving in the IDF. Allison was a guest of Limmud Oz Melbourne in 2018.