Naomi Zwebner

Naomi Zwebner was born in 1980 in Haifa

Naomi Zwebner was born on November 19, 1980, in the Hadar neighborhood of Haifa. She grew up in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood of Jerusalem and studied in the Beit Yaakov schools there.

After her marriage in 2000 she began writing for the Haredi press. She wrote the opening column of the women's supplement of Bakehila and published her novel Chochmat Nashim in installments in Beit Neeman. She later became literary adviser of the magazine Ktifa and wrote a weekly column there.

In 2013 she completed screenwriting studies at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. In May 2013 she became editor of Tatzpit, the weekly magazine of HaPeles, and was the first Haredi woman in Israel to head a magazine that is not a women's magazine. Her books deal with relationships, marriage, parenting and friendship, and 2 of her youth novels were adapted as plays.

In 2018 she began publishing the trilogy Baasher Hu Sham, about wounds passed between generations of a Holocaust survivors' family. Since 2023 she has edited a radio program on Kan Moreshet. She has 6 children with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Zwebner, and the couple divorced in December 2024.