Michal Hartstein was born in 1974 in Israel into a religious family, studied economics and accounting at the University of Tel Aviv and started a career in finance.
In 2006, after becoming a mother, she decided to change direction and began to write. For several years she has written a popular personal blog, and in 2011 published her first book, Confession of an Abandoned Wife. After two years she published her second book, Hill of Secrets. In 2014 she participated in the Israeli Nanowrimo contest and wrote Déjà vu. The book was one of the winners and was published in Israel in 2015. Her fourth book, The Hit, (the second book in the Hadas Levinger series) was published in 2018.
Hartstein’s books vividly describe the life of the Israeli middle class, focusing on middle class women.
