Michal Yudelman-O’Dwyer is a journalist, writer and translator. She was born on Kibbutz Hatzerim in the Negev, Israel, to where her parents immigrated from South Africa as pioneers in 1948. After high school she served in the Israel Defense Forces with and Intelligence corps unit based in the Sinai. She studied English Literature and Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, then in the U.S. where she received an M.A. from the University of Chicago. While studying for her Ph.D in Communication at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, she began her career in journalism editing and writing for the Utah Chronicle. On returning to Israel she worked with The Jerusalem Post, covering several news beats, including crime, business, politics and diplomatic affairs. She wrote a weekly political column, The Week That Was, a consumer affairs column and magazine features. In 2002 she joined Haaretz’s English edition (International Herald Tribune) as a Hebrew-English translator and editor on the night desk. She free- lanced for the BBC and RTE. She was married to the Irish journalist Thomas O’Dwyer. She lives in the couple’s apartment in central Tel Aviv.
Editor’s Note: Thomas O’Dwyer wrote almost fifty essays for 3QD which you can see here. by Michal Yudelman-O’Dwyer Thomas O’Dwyer, my husband, died on Wednesday. He wouldn’t approve of this beginning. In his articles he always came up with something original or intriguing to draw the reader in. Thomas was so many things, but first…