Gail Rubin

Gail Rubin was born in 1938 in New York City

Gail Rubin was born in New York City in 1938. She was the only child of businessman Jonathan Rubin and psychologist Estelle Rubin, and grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She was a relative of U.S. Senator Abraham Ribicoff.

She finished Dalton School in 1956 and began college at the University of Michigan. She earned her degree at Finch College in New York in 1960. She then worked as an editor at publishers in New York, and became managing editor at Delacorte Books.

In 1969 she came to Israel on vacation and chose to stay. She worked as a press photographer and covered the Yom Kippur War, and from 1973 she focused on nature and landscape photography. Her work was shown at the Jewish Museum in New York, the Magnes Museum in Berkeley and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

On March 11, 1978, she was photographing birds near Ma'agan Michael when Palestinian militants shot and killed her. She was the first victim of the Coastal Road massacre and was buried in Queens, New York. In 1979 her parents published a book of her photos, and a photography center in Ma'agan Michael was named for her.