Ofra Bikel (September 12, 1929 – August 11, 2024) was an Israeli-American documentary filmmaker and television producer.
For more than two decades she was a mainstay of the acclaimed PBS series Frontline producing over 25 award-winning documentaries, ranging from foreign affairs to critiques of the U.S. criminal justice system.
[1] Bikel was born in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine on September 12, 1929, to the Yechieli-Ichilov family.
Her reporting is credited with freeing 13 wrongfully convicted people from prison, including one who had been on death row.
Her documentary films intersperse long interviews with sharp, silent, moments.