Shulamit Lapid

Shulamit Lapid was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv

Shulamit Lapid, born Shulamit Giladi, was born in Tel Aviv in 1934. Her father, David Giladi, was a journalist, novelist and translator and one of the founders of Maariv. As a girl she lived with her family in Europe while her father worked for Maariv in Paris.

She did her military service on the armistice commission, thanks to her knowledge of languages. She studied Oriental studies and English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1959 she married Yosef Lapid, and from 1963 to 1966 they lived in London.

Her first story collection was published in 1969, and her play The Inheritance was staged by the Cameri Theater. Her novel Gai Oni (1982) tells of the founders of Rosh Pina, and she was among the first Hebrew writers to address women in the Zionist story. She also wrote children's books, several plays and the words of the song Rosa Marzipan.

She created Lizzy Badihi, a Beersheba local reporter who appears in 6 detective novels. The first, Mekomon, came out in 1989 and helped spread the genre in Hebrew. From 1984 to 1987 she chaired the Hebrew Writers' Association.

She is the widow of Yosef Lapid. They had 3 children: Michal, who was killed in a car accident in 1984, Merav and Yair, a former prime minister of Israel.