Sara Yael Hirschhorn is currently the visiting assistant professor of Israel studies at Northwestern University.
[3] In May 2017, Harvard University Press published her first book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement.
[8] Hirschhorn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Yale University, as well as both a Master of Arts degree in Middle Eastern studies and a PhD in history from the University of Chicago.
[citation needed] In 2017, her research was published by The Atlantic, reporting that 60,000 out of 400,000[9] (roughly 15 percent) of settlers on Israel's West Bank are American.
[11] In 2019, Haaretz covered her research into American Jews' role in the US settler movement,[12] including her analysis of Baruch Goldstein.