Ada Aharoni (Hebrew: עדה אהרוני; born Andrée Yadid, 1933) is an Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer, sociologist and peace researcher.

In 1949, her father, an export-import merchant of flour, had his work permit revoked, and the Egyptian authorities confiscated the money he had transferred to a Swiss bank.

[citation needed] She is the founder and world president of The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC).

[citation needed] She and Dr. Vijay Kumar Roy have edited 3 anthologies benefiting the organisation, focusing on war, terror, and human trafficking.

[citation needed] Aharoni, Aimee Israel-Pelletier, and Levana Zamir published the proceedings of the congress in History and Culture of the Jews of Egypt in Modern Times (Keness Hafakot, Tel Aviv, 2008), in English, French and Hebrew.

The term "Second Exodus" coined by Ada Aharoni, refers to the forced migration of the Jews from Arab countries after the State of Israel was founded in 1948.

In their joint article titled Possibilities of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Resolution Based On Mutual Recognition Of National Aspirations,[9] Aharoni and her husband, Haim Aharoni, write that the settlement of Palestinian refugees in Israel should be very limited, and that refugees, if "returned" to the place that has become part of Israel, would find themselves in a place foreign to them: Processes that take place in a society are rarely reversible processes; repair of wrongs and compensation on suffering cannot usually be accomplished by a return to the previous situation but by the creation of a new situation that is beneficial while appropriate to the new conditions.The Golden Age of the Jews from Egypt – Uprooting and Revival in Israel (Orion Publishing, 2013.

[citation needed] At 13, just after WW2, Aharoni together with an Arab student co-edited a school magazine, called Rainbow,[1][11] at Alvernia, with the motto: Abolish wars forever.

"[citation needed] Some of these early peace poems are concerned with the struggle for the survival of Israel, as seen in To an Egyptian Soldier (written during the Yom Kippur War), where Aharoni tells him that "you will always have your Nile... but if we lose there's only the sea."

The source of this "passionate attachment to her new homeland" is her recollection of what it was to be "an 'outsider', unwanted and not belonging" in Egypt, Len Goldzweig (lecturer in the Dept.

"[citation needed] Aharoni believes that poems are suitable vehicles for building bridges of trust and respect for each other's culture and humanity.

[citation needed] In 2017 Aharoni published Horizon of Hope: (Gvanim Publishers, Tel Aviv, 2017): A Bilingual poetry collection: English-Hebrew, of love, peace, women poems, and poems based on letters of soldiers to their loved ones in Israel, during the wars in Lebanon and Gaza, as well as anti-terror on Daesh (ISIS).

A "bridge of Jasmine understanding" can banish the fear, allowing each woman to sit with her baby "under her vine and under her fig tree and none shall make them afraid!

"[citation needed] In an interview with the Sketchbook literary journal,[17] Aharoni confirmed that she prefers open form poems as they give room for more depth and intimacy.

Ada Aharoni created the film The Pomegranate Of Reconciliation And Honor[18][19] which highlights the need for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Based on the author's personal experience and that of the Jews from Egypt, Ada Aharoni quotes Elie Wiesel's question at his Nobel Prize Ceremony:"Who is the enemy?"