David Ohana is a historian of modern European history, Jewish history and the history of Israel. He teaches and researches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Paris-Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a full professor of History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Ohana completed his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The recipient of aFulbright Fellowship, he spent his post-doctorate studies at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. From 1990-2000 he was a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, where he founded and directed the Forum for Mediterranean Cultures; since 2000, he has been a fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism. Ohana has written and edited numerous books in Hebrew, English, and French, including Origins of the Israeli Mythology: Neither Canaanites nor Crusaders and Modernism and Zionism.
