Sarah Blau is an author and play­wright, recip­i­ent of the 2015 Prime Min­is­ter’s Prize for Hebrew Lit­er­a­ture, and the 2017 Bar-Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty Alum­ni Achieve­ment Award in recog­ni­tion of her con­tri­bu­tion to enrich­ing cul­ture in Israel and her activ­i­ty in the fields of lit­er­a­ture and com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Con­sid­ered a promi­nent voice in reli­gious Israeli lit­er­a­ture, she iden­ti­fies her­self as ​“reli­gious-lite.”