Born and raised in New York and educated at Barnard College (Columbia University), Deb has lived for most of the last 25 years in the Wadi Ara area of Israel’s coastal plain, between Hadera and Umm al-Fahm. She has done translation and editing for many years for Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam, notably the English translation of "Israeli and Palestinian Identities in Dialogue : The School for Peace Approach" (Rutgers University Press, 2004). Her essays on Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation are widely published on the Internet. Deb is today a member of the NSWAS Communications and Development team.