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Lily Galili is a Haaretz correspondent, analyst on Israeli society and an expert on immigration from the former Soviet Union, and its political, cultural and social impact on Israeli society.

Galili joined Haaretz in 1982 as a media correspondent. During the first Lebanon war, when she was the first woman reporter to enter Lebanon, Galili gained vast experience in covering both military and civil protest groups, a field of expertise that reflects all changes in Israeli social and political development. Over the years. she has extensively covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with a focus on personal stories, and the Arab citizens of Israel.

Galili is a Nieman Fellow from Harvard and a graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, with a Master's Degree in communicaton.

She is currently working on a book on the 20 years of mass immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union.

Latest Articles by Lily Galili

An unorthodox aliyah

When David Neuhaus' parents sent the Jewish teen to Israel, they didn't imagine he'd return determined to become a Christian. More than three decades later, he is the Church's emissary to Israel's Hebrew-speaking Catholics.

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Move for absentee voting prompts fire across the political spectrum

Netanyahu to push bill that would enable Israeli citizens to vote from abroad in Knesset elections.

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Mutually assured salvation 0 comments

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The virus threatening Bibi

The rude remarks Ya'alon made about the elites and the left have become a strategic threat to Netanyahu.

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Lieberman controls the switch

Lieberman can count on the Russian-speaking community's sweeping hostility toward the police and law-enforcement authorities.