Orly Fruman

Orly Fruman was born in 1955 in Rishon LeZion

Fruman was born in 1955 in Rishon LeZion and grew up there, the daughter of Yisrael Lolek and Dvora Popko. She attended Haviv school and Gymnasia Realit and was active in the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement. She played handball for Maccabi Rishon LeZion and for the Israel women's national team.

In the IDF she commanded a company of female recruits and was an instructor in an officers' course, leaving with the rank of lieutenant. She studied mathematics and computer science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and earned a mathematics teaching certificate. She also holds a master's degree in communications from Clark University in Israel.

In 1976 she became a research assistant in the education department at Ben-Gurion University. She was later a deputy principal in Beersheba and Givatayim and helped found a high school in Ramat Gan, which she headed from 1990 to 1996. She then held education posts in Ramat Gan and headed the Tel Aviv District of the Ministry of Education from 2001 to 2009.

Minister Limor Livnat appointed her Director-General of the Ministry of Culture and Sport in 2009, and she served until 2015. In 2016 she became head of education at Kfar Saba municipality. In 2019 she joined Telem and entered the Knesset on the Blue and White list, and she was reelected twice before leaving in 2021.