Emilie Moatti​

 

​Emilie Haya Moatti was born in 1980 and grew up in a religious family of Tunisian descent in the town of Netanya. The oldest of six siblings, she dropped out of high school to go to work and in 2003, she traveled to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. In Paris, she also worked as a producer and spokesperson for the Israeli Cinema Festival and joined several forums dealing with Jewish culture. She was involved in two left-wing peace projects: the Geneva Initiative and the Israel Regional Initiative. Since 2014, she has been a member of the board of WePower, a feminist NGO that aims to integrate women into the municipal and national political arenas. She was elected to the 24th Knesset (Israeli parliament) as a member of the left-wing social-democratic Labor party (Ha’avoda). She served as a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and the Education, Culture and Sports Committee. She also chaired the Subcommittee for the Preservation of Heritage and Aliyah Culture. 
 

Today, Moatti is a writer, publicist, politician, and social activist who appears regularly as a commentator on various Israeli TV channels. She heads the Diplomacy department in the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. Blue marks is her debut novel, earning her the Culture Ministry Prize for a Debut Novel in 2018. A French-speaking film version of Emilie’s novel, shot in Paris and starring French actors, is scheduled to premiere in France in 2026. Renowned actress and producer Virginie Lacombe, of the French production company Virginie Films, bought the film rights to the film, and currently a behind-the-scenes ‘making-of’ documentary, incorporating interviews with Emilie herself is in under production. Her second novel, So Called Life, was published in 2025 to great critical acclaim.

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Novel: So Called Life

Novel: Blue Marks​​

 

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