Shulamit Lapid

Shulamit Lapid (Hebrew: שולמית לפיד‎, born 9 November 1934) is an Israeli novelist and playwright.

Shulamit Lapid was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She holds a degree in Middle Eastern studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She once served as the CEO of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel, and has published novels, children's books, plays, and short stories. In 2012, it was made public that she worked undercover for the Mossad and took part in covert activity.

Plays written by Lapid: Hirosha, Abandoned Property, Mifal Hayav, and A Surrogate's Womb.

Lapid's most well-known book Valley of Strength tells the story of the first immigrants to the modern land of Israel and the founders of the Rosh Pina Moshava. Its sequel Havat Haalmot stars the protagonists of Valley of Strength and others during the second Aliyah, who were part of Havat Haamlot to educate women to farming near the Sea of Galilee Farm. Keheres Hanishbar, another book by Lapid, tells the story of an antiquities seller named Moses Wilhelm Shapira. Lapid wrote several children's books and the words for the song Rosa Marzipan, which was composed by Shlomo Gronich. Lapid's spy-themed literature is especially popular in Israel. She is the creator of the character Lizzy Bdihi, who is featured in six of Lapid’s thriller novels. Bdihi is a journalist at a Beersheba Local Newspaper called Hazman Darom (literally "The Southern Times"), and in each book she stubbornly insists on dealing with a detective mystery no one asked her to solve. The first book in the series, Mekomon (published 1989), is a prominent Hebrew detective novel that helped the genre flourish in Israel. The main character of the series, Bdihi, solves several cases while tottering in her oversized shoes and wearing oversized earrings, as Lapid liked to describe her.

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