Hanna Zemer

Hannah Semer (; October 2, 1924 – March 6, 2003) was an Israeli journalist. She was Editor in Chief of Davar from 1970 until 1990, the first female editor in chief of a major Israeli daily newspaper.

Biography Hannah Haberfeld (later Semer) was born in a German-speaking Jewish family in Bratislava. Her father was Rabbi Shlomo Haberfeld, and her grandfather, Rabbi Jacob Haberfeld, was the rabbi of Turá Lúka. Her family was ultra-Orthodox.

Semer also wrote entries for Encyclopaedia Judaica, and was elected to the board of the International Institute of Journalism.

Published works God Doesn't Live Here Anymore is about her return visit to the Ravensbrück concentration camp:

On my travels abroad, and especially my trips to Germany, I am very careful not to eat treif. It’s a sort of demonstration of solidarity. But here at the doorway, at Ravensbrück, I would have eaten pork if I could have eaten at all. I would have eaten steak with cheese to take revenge on God for the deaths of my aunts and cousins, who counted the days of their niddah time according to the law, separated hallah from the dough, ran to the dayyan with questions about a spot on a slaughtered goose, and read from the Ze’enah U-Re’enah every free moment—and their reward was to be humiliated to the dust and tortured until they perished. Five minutes from Ravensbrück, I would even have eaten a baby goat cooked in its mother’s milk. Instead, I took a Valium.