Margalit Shilo

Margalit Shilo was born in 1942 in Rehovot

Margalit Shilo was born in Rehovot in 1942. Her father was the chemist Aron Bondi. Her husband was Shmuel Shilo, a law professor at the Hebrew University.

She attended religious schools in Rehovot and finished high school at Zeitlin in Tel Aviv. She did national service and taught at a school in the Negev. She studied at the Hebrew University from 1961, earned her master's degree in 1976 and her doctorate in 1985.

From 1986 she taught at Bar-Ilan University in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology. She became a senior lecturer in 1992 and began teaching courses on the history of women in the Yishuv. She became an associate professor in 2002.

Her books cover early Zionist settlement, Jewish women in Jerusalem, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Her first book won the Ruppin Prize and another won the Bahat Prize. She retired in 2010 and has continued research and public lecturing.