Dana Olmert

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Dana Olmert is an Israeli radical left wing activist, literary theorist and editor, and is a daughter of Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Olmert studied graduated with a PhD in literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She taught literature at Tel Aviv University and now teaches creative writing workshops. She is the editor of a poetry series and was invited to several juries of literary prizes.

She was active in the Jerusalem branch of the Israeli left-wing organization Machsom Watch. In June 2006 she attended a march in Tel Aviv protesting alleged Israeli complicity in the Gaza beach blast.^[1]

Olmert is a self-identified lesbian. She lives with her female partner, Dafna Ben-Zvi, in Tel Aviv.^[2] The couple raise Ben-Zvi's daughter.

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