Rachel Avraham—author of the revolutionary book, Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media—was a senior media research analyst for the Center for Near East Policy Research, a correspondent for the Israel Resource News Agency, and a news editor and political analyst at JerusalemOnline, the English language website of Channel 2 News. She also spent one year working as a content manager and writer for United with Israel, a hasbara website with over 3 million followers.

In addition to an array of published works in JerusalemOnline, Rachel's articles have been featured in the Jewish Press, United With Israel, the Foreign Policy Association, the Washington Times, the Jerusalem Post, Israel National News (Arutz Sheva), the Clarion Project, and other places across the world. She holds a masters degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Ben-Gurion University with a BA in Government and Politics and a minor in Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park.