Orly Azoulay

Orly Azoulay was born in 1953 in Rishon LeZion

Orly Azoulay was born in Rishon LeZion in October 1953. She started in journalism during her IDF service, as a reporter for the Israeli Navy's magazine.

She then joined Yedioth Ahronoth as its reporter for the Sharon region and Netanya, writing about crime gangs in Netanya. She later became the paper's political reporter and covered several elections. In 1978 she published a favorable article about a convicted man two days before his sentencing, was convicted under section 41 of the Courts Law and fined, and her appeals were rejected in 1981 and 1983.

In 1993 she became the paper's correspondent in Paris, covering early Israeli and Palestinian contacts and interviewing Yasser Arafat in Tunis. She first reported the Rabin Deposit, a commitment on withdrawing from the Golan Heights in return for peace with Syria.

From 1996 she worked in Washington, covering summits such as Wye River, Camp David and Shepherdstown. She reported from Iran, Iraq, North Korea and other areas of tension, and was the first Israeli journalist invited to the royal palace in Riyadh. She ended her regular work at the paper in January 2021 and has written 4 books.