Lihi Lapid is an author and jour­nal­ist whose books deal with con­tem­po­rary women’s issues. She has writ­ten two best­selling nov­els in Israel, Secrets from With­in and Woman of Val­or, and a third nov­el On Her Own; a cook­book enti­tled Lihi Lapid’s Favorite Recipes, and a best­selling children’s book, The Mag­ic Whis­per. Pri­or to becom­ing a writer, Ms. Lapid was a pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­ph­er. Edu­cat­ed at the pres­ti­gious Cam­era Obscu­ra School of Art and Tel Aviv Uni­ver­si­ty, she served in the Israel Defense Forces as a pho­tog­ra­ph­er for its Bamachane mag­a­zine. She lives with her hus­band, for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Yair Lapid, in Tel Aviv.