| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Rachel Shabi |
| Sister | Not Known |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Partner | Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | March 30, 1973. As of 2025, she is around 52 years old. |
| Where was rachel Shabi born? | Rachel Shabi grew up in London and was born in Ramat Gan, Israel. |
| Children / No of Kids | No confirmed information is available. |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Arab-Jew |
| Nationality | British-Israeli |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Rachel Shabi is a British journalist.
- She is also a published author and a frequent contributor to The Guardian.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Rachel Shabi was born on March 30, 1973, in Ramat Gan, a city in the district of Tel Aviv, in Israel, to Iraqi Jewish parents. Her parents had emigrated to Israel in the 1950s and then moved to the United Kingdom during the 1970s.
- Rachel was raised in England but continues to identify as an Arab Jew. In an interview given to The Guardian, Shabi said that her parents continue to be attached politically and culturally to the Israeli-Palestinian war. They continue to consider Israel as their home.
- Shabi went to Scotland for her university studies, picking the University of Edinburgh. She studied there from 1988 to 1991 and specialized in advanced politics and literature.
- Rachel has been living in London, where she has also created her professional career. She frequently travels across the world for her work and habitually spends time in the Middle East.
Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :
- Rachel was a correspondent and author covering the Israeli and Palestinian territories department for The Guardian. She was in that role from September 2005 to September 2010. While based in Jerusalem for this job, she also provided analysis and commentary for several other prestigious news organizations, such as The London Times, Al Jazeera, Salon, The New Statesman, The National, and the Foreign Policy magazine.
- From October 2010 to February 2014, Rachel worked as an independent journalist for various publications, such as The New Statesman, The Guardian, The Independent, Al Jazeera, The Sunday Times, BBC, and Sky News. During this time, she also did the editing and consulting work for digital and film media. Her duties as a journalist focused on features, analysis, and commentary.
- From March 2014 to September 2014, Rachel relocated to Doha in Qatar. While there, she worked as an online Deputy Features Editor for the Al Jazeera Media Network. Her role focused on online global features, as well as on commissioning and developing contributors to the team.
- Since October 2014, Rachel has been a freelance journalist, broadcaster, and editor. She has continued to be employed by some of the most prestigious publications across the world, such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera, BBC, Sky News, and The Independent. Her work focuses on the Middle East, as well as UK politics, food, culture, and measures for counter-extremism. She is also very passionate about migration.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Prior to Rachel’s family moving to England, her father had lived in Turkey and France in his student life, as well as Iraq and Israel…so he had a fair idea of the social values of each country. England ticked all the right boxes for raising a family. Her mom had some reservations, thinking it would be tough to raise children away from a close-knit family in Israel, but she eventually agreed.
- Rachel published a book, We Look Like The Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews From Arab Lands. The book was published in 2009 by Bloomsbury and touched on issues very close to her heart and her identity as an Arab Jew. Rachel received a ‘National Jewish Book Award’ for her work. While writing the book, she temporarily fully relocated to Israel.
- She is also a media trainer.
- Rachel supports the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- She ranked thirtieth on Iain Dale’s ‘Top 100 Most Influential People on the Left,’ published in September 2017.
- Rachel was the winner of the 2013 International Media Awards’ Cutting Edge Media award.
Rachel. I enjoy watching you on Sky News on Sundays. I am based in Houston, Texas. My name is Eno Makia. You are a woman gifted with brains and beauty. I know you are married but I will like to be your friend.
Thank you for publishing my e-mail, and making the point on “The Papers” that the present method of tracking and tracing were useless. The situation has become even worse with thousands dying every day. The Covid careers are not over 70, and the vaccine is anyway no proof against spreading the virus. Unless strong action on tracking and isolating under supervision is taken the slaughter will continue.
Bob Parslow.
bobparslow@icloud.com
Catch and Isolate the Covid Carriers
The shutdown will only postpone the spread of COVID-19. If we do not isolate the careers, we will not stop the virus.
At the moment the tracking consists of phoning to find the contacts of those who have the disease, and asking those contacts that they can contact, to self isolate; they are not even tested! That is not the best way of collecting data, and acting on it. It is certainly not enough to stop the careers.
The main problem is that the tracking system does not find the careers of the disease, particularly the ones without symptoms. For each person who has tested positive to the disease, we need to have a fast, face to face collection of details of where and when they met each contact. This is more likely to collect accurate data. Computer systems will then determine the local danger points, and the contacts who are on several lists. If the contacts are not on other lists, we may already have found a career.
The collection of such detailed data is labour intensive. I suggest that we use the military. I know that it is not policy to use military personnel, but we are at war with COVID 19 and they can be trained for this vital job. They have already been used in testing.
A computer system can then highlight the danger spots, which will be investigated, and will also reveal the names that appear on several lists, which will include the names of careers. These people should be tested, and, if positive, be isolated under supervision.
When people see that this is working, they will be more likely to Cooperate.