Hannah Kim (Hebrew: חנה קים; born 27 October 1957) is an Israeli activist and investigative journalist.
Biography
Hannah Kim was born in Haifa and graduated from Hugim High School[1][non-primary source needed] in Haifa. She served in the Israel Defense Forces during the years 1976–1978 in the National Communication Battalion. She holds a BA in Hebrew and general literature, history of the Jewish people, history of the Land of Israel, general history, and film and art history at the Tel Aviv University.[citation needed]
Following the death of Simeon Joshua in Kfar Shalem, Tel Aviv, who was shot by a policeman after he barricaded himself on the roof of his house following the construction crime [clarification needed] which the deceased had committed, she published a series of investigative reports on building violations, which were committed by Avraham Shapira, Leon Recanati, Rami Ungar, and Rehavam Ze'evi, Chairman of Eretz Israel Museum. Following the recent investigation, Ze'evi was banned from entering the museum, and the journalists' association condemned it.
She published children's stories in Mishmar LeYeledim, edited by Shlomo Nitzan. One of the children's stories she wrote (I saw Elijah the prophet) was dramatized and broadcast in Kol Yisrael.
She revealed new documents from the Israeli Foreign Ministry archives. shedding light on the missed opportunity for peace between Israel and Egypt, two years before the Suez Crisis.
In 1986, she began working for the newspaper Ha'ir. In this year, for the first time, she published the peace initiative of Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, about two years before the Suez Crisis, which sent an emissary on his behalf to President Gamal Abdel Nasser to reach a peace agreement with Egypt.
She revealed the scope of trade between Israel and South Africa, and her article was quoted in The Washington Post. She published discoveries about the economic ties between Israel and the Soviet Union, which included steel imports, despite the severing of relations between the two countries.
In November 1989, she wrote and edited The Hammer,[2][3][4] a monthly magazine for social affairs. She was active in the homeless movement which was established that year, in which its activity tents were established throughout the country, mainly in the neighborhoods.[citation needed]
About a year later, she began working for Hadashot, until it was closed in 1993. At Hadashot, she founded the weekly supplement "Pressure", which she edited, for social and economic affairs.[4] In the supplement, investigations were published about homeless children in Israel, malnutrition in neighborhoods and development towns, manifestations of racism against Ethiopian immigrants[5] and poverty in the ultra Orthodox and the Arab sectors. For her work, she won a citation from the Sokolov Award.[6]
In Hadashot, she wrote that Shimon Sheves, the director general of the Israeli Prime Minister's office, was appointed by Oren Shachor from the rank of a corporal to a captain,[7] as well as a first comprehensive investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu, in which Bibi's millionaires' club was first published, with the names of its donors. She published an interview with the millionaire Gabi Tamman,[8] who said: "Bibi is my race horse".[9][10]
In 1994, she began working for Haaretz and published a political-social-economic column. She published weekly articles on the articles' page, and focused on the rule of law, the independence of the judicial system, and the preservation of the integrity of senior government officials,[11] as well as the connection between capital and governing.[12][13][14]
In Haaretz, she published revelations about the wars of the Shin Bet (the Israeli Security Agency) on Congo's soil, involving the head of the Shin Bet Head Office and some senior Shin Bet officials, who built the ruling army in front of the opposing army. She made the initial publication of the increased pensions of Arthur Israelovitz and Giora Eini, senior members of the Histadrut, and the increased pension of Shimon Sheves, as well as the first computer kits in the "Computer for Every Child" project, intended for needy children, were given to the two children of the Prime Minister Netanyahu. She published the first article on the opinion page of Haaretz in favor of a general strike. In 2004, she left Haaretz.[citation needed]
Prior to the elections to the nineteenth Knesset, she published on her Facebook page a series of notes and documents written by Netanyahu.
Awards and recognition
She was awarded the Quality Knight Award of the year 1999 for Communication and Journalism. The reasons for the award were:
"In her journalistic work, Mrs. Hanna Kim discovered the required qualities of a professional, honest, warrior and ethical journalist. A meticulous collection of material from the field, cross-referencing, verification of the material and the presentation to the reader in the clearest and the most fluent manner, characterize her work throughout her professional career. In the course of her work, she covered various areas of Israeli social and political life: the exposure of concealed arms deals, and wrongs which caused to weak sectors of society such as immigrants, minorities and foreign workers. Particularly worthy of mention of her journalistic achievements in the expression and treatment of politics and the rule of law. In these areas, she demonstrated determination, courage and helped the readers understand the Israeli reality in its essence, despite the illusions of the politicians".
1993 – Citation from the Sokolov Award Committee for the "Pressure" supplement in Hadashot and writing on social issues.
1999 – Knight of Quality Government Award from the Movement for Quality Government.[4]
Social activism
Hannah Kim in a black dress and her back to the camera, is demonstrating with Israeli disabled and elderly near the Knesset, 16 July 2018
In 2009 she founded, together with a group of parents, the Harim School in Giv'at Ada for students from the autistic spectrum. She is a member of the Audit Committee of the Association for Legal guardian which was established by parents and public figures to look after the future of helpless autistic people.
She was one of the leaders of the protest against the government corruption and for equality before the law. She organized and led the demonstrations in Petah Tikva, near the home of Attorney General, Avichai Mandelblit,[15][16] and then the mass demonstrations which were begun in Tel Aviv.[17][18] She opened the first demonstration in Tel Aviv with a speech which called on the Israelis to find a leader who would be a beacon, one masterpiece, and abandon their leaders accused of corruption. At that demonstration, Prof. Uzi Arad joined, and was introduced by Kim as a partner of moving the protest from Petah Tikva to Tel Aviv, as they had talked six months prior to the move.
^פרסיקו, אורן (18 December 2003). "The Hammers". Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 25 August 2018.
^Hannah Kim (28 August 2016). "He was a man, which should not be met in a dark alley". Mekomit (A home of an activist journalism) (in Hebrew). Retrieved 24 September 2018. He annoyed me when I edited the newspaper "The Hammer" because he wanted to annex it as the Labor Party's home page. We fought a lot, but when I wrote in Hadashot that he was the heir and that he would lead the Labor Party, I tasted a bit of the contempt which he got.
^Shuki Sadeh (18 June 2016). "Benjamin Netanyahu's Billionaires Club". Haaretz. Retrieved 24 September 2018. In November 1991, Hadashot journalist Hanna Kim revealed Netanyahu's connections with American benefactors, among them Ron Lauder, Sam Domb, Morad Zamir (an Israeli businessman living in New York who has been close to Netanyahu for years) and the businessman Gabi Taman, brother of the billionaire Leon Taman. A few months later, in May 1992, Taman told Hadashot: "Bibi is without a doubt one of my best race horses, and I'm betting on him".
^Tal Schneider (13 January 2018). "The protests of 2017 proved that the democracy was not dead". Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 24 September 2018. Petah Tikva is not only the mother of the colonies but also the mother of the demonstrations. During a whole year, Sigalit Kessler, Mani Naftali, Hannah Kim, Oren Simon, Mira Strick, Simcha Latman, Abie Benjamin, Miri Nir, Dudu Palmeri, Avi Assayes, Uri Brightman and many other citizens were not far from the home of the Attorney General [...] "Hannah Kim is in charge of the order of the speakers and I trust her".
^Sefi Krupsky (30 September 2018). "Stop being silent". Davar1 ("In the first place") (in Hebrew). Retrieved 1 October 2018. He took me in his car from the Knesset to my place. A quarter hour from the destination, he kissed me against my will. After five minutes he dropped me from the car, claiming he did not live in Tel Aviv. Another senior reporter opened his pants when we were in a room and pushed me, but was bothered by another colleague who came in.
