She is Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar Ilan University.
[1][2][3] From 1965 to 1969, she was educated at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, majoring in mathematics, philosophy and history, and graduating summa cum laude in 1969.
[4] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Non-singular deformations of space curves, using determinantal schemes": her advisors were David Mumford and Heisuke Hironaka.
[6][7] They both gradually felt more and more drawn to Orthodox Judaism and considered themselves Haredi by the time they had completed their doctorates.
[3][5] In her second year in Israel the Yom Kippur War occurred: the change in language, culture and the threat to her new family were a shock.