Born in Jerusalem (1953)

A versatile artist with an emphasis on photography.

She grew up in the ultra orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, lives and creates in Jerusalem. Since 1985 she worked as a press photographer, mainly for German newspapers and magazines. Graduated the Musrara Photography School, Jerusalem. She studied Jewish Folklore and Theater in The Hebrew University, where she made her master degree. Her thesis about the Mikve ((Jewish Ritual Bath for Women) was published as a book "The House of Secrets" Secrets from the Mikve (Modan 2005). She produced the "Peace Album", a rare photo documentation of the gilding of the Dome of the Rock, which was presented to King Hussein of Jordan by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1994 in Washington. She was the first ever Israeli to receive an award in an Arabic country at an International Photography Competition (Jordan, 1995). Her photo-exhibitions: "Cancer" (1991), "By Bread Alone" (since 1996), "Zaka Volunteers" (2005), "The House of Secrets" (2006), "The Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia (Rajasthan, India)" (Curator, since 2000). Her exhibitions were shown in museums and galleries in Israel, Turkey, the Vatican (the first ever exhibition of an Israeli photographer), Germany (inauguration under the auspices of the late German President Johannes Rau), Italy, at the UNESCO in Paris and in London, where His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales came for a private visit.

Some of her pictures are embedded into ever-lasting candles, a new way of her artistic expression.