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Yankelevich is a co-founder of the "Just Begun Foundation" ( Hebrew: קרן רק התחלנו), which sponsors social initiatives to help integrate peripheral and marginalized populations, with an emphasis on the Haredi sector. Yankelevich has taught at the Takhkemoni School in Rehovot and the Bat-Zion high school in Jerusalem. In her legal practice, she specializes in government relations and copyright. She then became Chief of Staff of the Ministry for Social Equity. After passing the Bar, she worked as a legal assistant to a judge in the Jerusalem District Court for 13 years.
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She graduated from Ono Academic College with a bachelor's of law (LL.B) with honors, and from Bar-Ilan University with a master's in law (LL.M) with distinction. Later, she took English teaching courses at the University of Cambridge. She received a teaching certificate at the Gateshead seminary for women and completed additional courses at the Shecheransky Seminary in Tel Aviv. She attended Bais Yaakov for her elementary schooling, and went on to attend the Rabbi Wolf Teachers Seminary in Bnei Brak. During her youth, her parents volunteered in the Jewish communities in the Soviet Union, and at age 16, she taught Hebrew and Judaism in Russia and Ukraine. Her father, Yaakov (Yasha) Galinsky, a native of Lithuania, was an actor in the Habima Theatre, and later became a baal teshuva. She was named for her birthdate on the Jewish calendar, which coincided that year with the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer. Omer Galinsky was born on to a secular family in Tel Aviv. In the national unity government which comprised the thirty-fifth government of Israel, Yankelevich was named Minister of Diaspora Affairs, becoming the first-ever Haredi woman cabinet minister. She was subsequently elected to the Knesset as part of the Blue and White alliance in the September 2019 and March 2020 elections. The Blue and White alliance gained 35 seats in the election, resulting in Yankelevich becoming a Member of the Knesset. In 2019, she joined the Israel Resilience Party, which is part of the Blue and White political alliance, and was placed #23 on the faction's list for the April 2019 Knesset election. She is a co-founder of the "Just Begun Foundation", which sponsors social initiatives to help integrate peripheral and marginalized populations in Israel, with an emphasis on the Haredi sector. She was the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and was a Member of the Knesset for the Blue and White from 2019 to 2021. Omer Yankelevich ( Hebrew: עוֹמֶר יַנְקֵלֵבִיץ׳, born ) is an Israeli attorney, educator, social activist, and politician.