Dalia Ofer (Hebrew: דליה עופר; born 8 January 1939, Jerusalem) was the Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ofer graduated from the Hebrew University High School in 1956, completed her IDF service in the Nahal and went to Kibbutz Ein Gev.
in history from the Hebrew University in 1962 and, a year later, received a teaching certificate.
in history summa cum laude, with a thesis titled “The Rescue and Aid Operation of the Yishuv Delegation in Istanbul, 1943–1944.” In 1981 Ofer received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University for her dissertation titled “Illegal Immigration to Palestine 1939–1941.”[2][3] In 1992, Derekh ba-yam, her first book, appeared in Hebrew and won that year's Yad Ben-Zvi Award.
[3] The English translation, Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939–1944, won the Jewish Book Award in the same year.