Background
She was born in Kfar Saba to a Persian Jewish family.
She was born in Kfar Saba to a Persian Jewish family.
She has published three novels, two of which have been widely translated. She has also published a poetry collection and an illustrated children"s book She also writes for television
Her 2014 novel Gader Haya (known as Borderlife in English), which tells a love story between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian, has become the center of controversy.
In 2015, a committee of teachers requested Borderlife be added to the recommended curriculum for Hebrew high school literature classes. A committee in the Israeli Ministry of Education found the book inappropriate and declined to add it, on the grounds, according to The Economist, that it promotes intermarriage and assimilation.
Dalia Fenig, the leading committee member, argued that the book "could do more harm than good" at this time of heightened tensions, though she noted the book was not banned and could be added next year. Sales of the book have surged in the aftermath.