PERSON: Dafna Yoran

U.S. State of New York

Senior Trial Counsel for New York County

Dafna Yoran is a Senior Trial Counsel at the New York County District Attorney’s Office, where she has been a prosecutor for the past 29 years. In that capacity, she holds defendants accountable for committing murders and has prosecuted some of Manhattan’s most notorious murderers. Yoran was born and raised in Israel, and se currently lives in Manhattan with her wife, Peruvian artist Ana De Orbegoso. Yoran is the proud daughter of a partisan, Shalom Yoran, who deeply inspired FOUR WINTERS and is the author of The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival.

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