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Tamar Kaplansky

Tamar Kaplansky is an Israeli journalist, writer, translator and musician known for investigative reporting on social and feminist issues.

born 1973Me Too investigative journalismReporting on the Yemenite children affairThe novel Al Mekom Hamtza'aTranslating Frantz Fanon into Hebrew

Born: 27 November 1973, Paris
Occupation: journalist, literary editor, musician, translator
Education: Tel Aviv University, Makif Alef, Ashdod

Tamar Kaplansky was born in 1973 in Paris

Tamar Kaplansky was born in Paris in 1973 to Amnon and Aviva Kaplansky. She grew up partly in France and partly in Israel, and finished high school in Ashdod. Her brother is the comedian Asaf Kaplansky.

After the army she studied at the Rimon School. She earned a master's degree in general literature at Tel Aviv University. Her thesis on the Holocaust as repressed trauma in second generation fiction won the Goldhirsch Prize.

In 2003 she joined Cosmopolitan Israel as a translation editor and later deputy editor. From 2007 she was an editor at Yedioth Ahronoth, writing on evictions, administrative detention, racism and violence against women. In 2017 and 2018 she published interviews with two women who said they saw babies given for illegal adoption, as part of the Yemenite children affair.

In 2020 she moved to Haaretz, where she publishes Me Too investigations and opinion columns on women's rights. In 2019 she published the novel Al Mekom Hamtza'a with Keter. She also translated books by Frantz Fanon and Paul Lafargue from French, and composed and performed songs.

She was married to Shai Tsabari, and they have two sons. In 2018 she contracted Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which left half her face paralyzed. She lives in Ramat Gan.