Dr. Nurit PELED-ELHANAN is a lecturer of Language Education at the University of Tel-Aviv and the David Yellin Teachers College. Her current studies concern the racist discourse in Israeli schoolbooks and classroom, mainly against Palestinians. Peled-Elhanan is the daughter of the late general, scholar and politician Mattityahu Peled, and married to Rami Elhanan, a co- founder of the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Parents for Peace. Elhanan's daughter, Smadar Elhanan, was the victim of a suicide bombing attack on Ben Yehuda Street Bombing in Jerusalem on September 4, 1997. Nurit blamed the Israeli oppression of Palestinians as an indirect cause of her daughter's death.

Dr. Peled-Elhanan is a laureate of the 2001 Sakharov prize for Human Rights and the Freedom of Speech, awarded by the European Parliament and shared with the late Izzat Gazawi.