Hannah Kim

Kim was a member of the Me Too movement, and wrote in her Facebook page about two men who sexually harassed her. On 17 October 2018 Kim told Keren Neubach that she was harassed by Haim Ramon and by Dan Margalit.

She made a first publication about a weapons deal between Israel and Iran, a year before the Iran–Contra affair, in which the chairman of the Israel Aerospace Industries Mordechai Hod, and the Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's contacts in Iran were involved.

She has published many articles which inspired the 2011 Israeli social justice protests, and presented an economic thought which was considered unpopular at the time, against the privatization of the state resources and for the continued existence of a welfare state. She was one of the founders of the "Social Guard in the Knesset" and the "Israel is Expensive for Us" group, which worked against the cost of living in Israel.

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.

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 an employee strike in the economy. In 2004, she left the newspaper Haaretz.

She was awarded the Quality Knight Award of the year 1999 for Communication and Journalism. The reasons for the award were:

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, as well as the connection between capital and governing.

About a year later, she began working for Hadashot, until it was closed in 1993. She was a reporter for party affairs, and demanded to change the term of her position as a "Political Reporter", a term which has been rooted ever since.

In November 1989 she wrote and edited then The Hammer, 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.

She revealed Yitzhak Shamir's letter to George P. Shultz on 14 January 1988, a letter which accelerated Schultz's peace initiative in the Middle East.

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.

In 1978 she began working as a journalist for Al HaMishmar, first as a correspondent for Tel Aviv and later as a political writer. Following the death of Simeon Joshua in Kfar Shalem, Tel Aviv, who was shot by a policeman after barricaded on the roof of his house, following the construction crime which he committed – she has 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.

Hannah Kim was born in Haifa and graduated from Hugim High School in Haifa. 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 jand of Israel, general history, and film and art history at the Tel Aviv University.

Hannah Kim (Hebrew: חנה קים ‎; born 27 October 1957) is an Israeli journalist.