Omer Yankelevich

Omer Yankelevich was born in 1978 in Tel Aviv

Omer Galinsky was born on 25 May 1978 in Tel Aviv to a secular family. Her father, Yaakov Galinsky, was a theater actor from Lithuania, and her mother came from Latvia. Her parents later became religious, and as a teenager she joined them on Jewish outreach work in the Soviet Union, teaching Hebrew and Judaism.

She studied at Bais Yaakov and the Rabbi Wolf seminary, and earned a teaching certificate in Gateshead. She took English teaching courses at the University of Cambridge. She holds a law degree from Ono Academic College and a master's in law from Bar-Ilan University.

She taught at schools in Rehovot and Jerusalem and was licensed as a lawyer in 2007. From 2007 to 2015 she was legal assistant to Judge Ram Winograd, and later served as chief of staff to the director general of the Ministry for Social Equality. In 2015 she founded the Just Begun Foundation, which supports the integration of the Haredi sector and other peripheral groups.

In 2019 she joined the Israel Resilience Party and entered the Knesset with Blue and White, winning reelection in September 2019 and March 2020. On 17 May 2020 she was appointed Minister of Diaspora Affairs in the 35th government. She did not run in the 2021 elections.