Bambi Sheleg

Bambi Sheleg was born in 1958 in Santiago

Bambi Sheleg was born Beatrice Ehrlich in 1958 in Santiago, Chile, to a family of German-born Orthodox Jews. Her father gave her the nickname Bambi. At 12 she moved to Israel with her family and settled in Netanya, where she attended the religious Bar-Ilan high school.

She served in the army with a Nahal group of the Bnei Akiva movement. She earned a BA in Jewish history and English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also studied Jewish philosophy at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

In the early 1980s she was active in the movement against the withdrawal from Sinai and helped found the settlement of Atzmona. In 1983 she began writing and editing for the journal Nekuda, and later edited the children's magazine Otiot. From 1996 she wrote opinion columns for Maariv, and in 2012 she began writing for Yedioth Ahronoth.

After the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, she founded Eretz Acheret, a magazine on social, cultural and spiritual trends in Israel and the Jewish people. She was a member of the councils of the Second Authority for Television and Radio and of Yad Vashem. She often appeared as a commentator on television and radio.

She was married to the journalist Yair Sheleg, and they lived in Jerusalem with their 3 children. She died of cancer in 2016.