The Deborah Harris Agency is a Jerusalem-based literary agency founded in 1991. The agency represents worldwide publishing and dramatic rights of Israeli, Palestinian and international authors in more than thirty countries. In addition, we act as sub-agents for numerous publishers and agencies overseas to Israeli publishing houses. Locally, we represent the Hebrew rights of Israeli writers of fiction and non-fiction, including high-profile personalities in the fields of science, business, politics and history. Through our representation of rights both to and from Israel, The Deborah Harris Agency has earned a unique international reputation as the Israeli agency for literary fiction and non-fiction of the highest standards. Deborah Harris moved from the U.S. to Jerusalem in 1979, after working at several publishing positions in New York. She co-founded The Domino Press, and in 1991, together with Beth Elon, she established The Harris/Elon Agency—renamed The Deborah Harris Agency in 2005. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem International Book Fair for twenty years and created the prestigious project “Voices from Two Sides of the Bridge”, a day-long literary event bringing together Israeli and Palestinian writers and film makers, along with prominent world publishing leaders. The Bridge project is now a permanent event at the bi-annual Book Fair. Deborah Harris is a founding board member of The Jerusalem Film and Television Fund, which acts to advance the production of full-length Israeli and international feature films to be filmed on location in Jerusalem. Ines Austern Gander, managing editor, represents the foreign-language and dramatic rights of the agency’s authors list world wide (excluding UK & USA). Prior to her work in publishing, Ines has been the program manager responsible for the establishment of Hi-Tech centers in the Palestinian Authority, Gaza and Jordan in the framework of a foreign foundation. Efrat Lev is the foreign rights director at The Deborah Harris Agency. She has studied world & comparative literature at San Francisco State University and modern Jewish studies at St. Anthony’s College in Oxford, and obtained a publishing diploma from the University of California Berkeley Extension program. Efrat has worked as a bookseller and then in marketing for publishing houses in San Francisco (including HarperSanFrancisco & Jossey-Bass Publishers) and Israel (Hakibbutz Hame’uchad), before joining the agency in 1999. Ilana Kurshan, foreign rights agent, has studied history of science and English literature at Harvard and Cambridge universities, and has worked in the editorial department at Alfred A. Knopf and Schocken Books, New York. Ilana joined the agency in 2005. Hadar Makov-Hasson is in charge of the Israeli department at the Agency, representing new and upcoming Israeli authors in Israel as well as initiating non-fiction book projects, particularly in the fields of science and business. She has worked as an editor at Black Dog & Leventhal, a small New York publisher specializing in unique non-fiction and reference books. In Israel, she was the literary editor of the English journal Modern Hebrew Literature, as well as a reader for Matar Publishing House. She is also a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, writing her dissertation on Israel’s first women novelists, and has taught various courses on Hebrew literature.