When Austria was annexed into Nazi Germany, her father emigrated to Eretz Yisrael, and their names became Hebrew.
Long at Cornell University, where she started to work with mass spectrometry and unimolecular fragmentations of polyatomic ions.
[3][5] In 1963 Lifshitz returned to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she established her own independent research group and was appointed Professor in 1976.
[5] In 1986 Lifshitz was appointed a Brotherton Research Professor at the University of Leeds, where she started working on biomolecules and reaction dynamics.
Lifshitz held various senior positions at the Hebrew University, including Chair of the Chemistry Division, head of the Mass spectrometry laboratory and member of the Israel Board of higher Education.