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==Literary career==
Yanai worked as a [[journalist]] for Hayim Aherim (A Different Life) magazine, and the weekend supplement of Hebrew daily [[Haaretz]]. She was also a book critic for the Hebrew daily [[Globes]], and the [[Literary criticism|literary]] and [[Film criticism|film critic]] for Israeli Television [[Channel 2 (Israel)|Channel Two]]. Today she works as a literary editor, teaches creative writing, and is a book critic for the [[Israel Army Radio|IDF radio station]] and Israel Television [[Channel 1 (Israel)|Channel One]].<ref>[http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00848 Hagar Yanai – From the New Hebrew Literature Lexicon] (Hebrew) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909091321/http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00848 |date=2009-09-09 }}<!-- redirects to http://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/00848/ 404--></ref>
 
Yanai's second book, ''Alex's Eternity Machine'', describes the journey of a rebellious female soldier in the [[Golan Heights]]. The soldier, Duba, runs away from a young and aggressive officer who wants to rehabilitate her, and looks for Alex, a young physics genius, with whom she fell in love in her youth, and who is trying to invent the [[Perpetual motion|Perpetuum Mobile]]. The book was nominated for the 2006 [[Sapir Prize]] for Literature.<ref>{{cite web |author=Eli Eshed |authorlink=Eli Eshed |url=http://no666.wordpress.com/2005/02/18/%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%92%D7%A8-%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%99/ |script-title=he:התיאוריה הסופית של הגר ינאי |trans-title=Hagar Yanai's Final Theory |publisher=Eli Eshed's blog in "Reshimot" site |date=18 February 2005 |language=Hebrew |accessdate=21 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3039030,00.html |script-title=he:יתור הוא כוח |language=he |trans-title=Yielding is Power |author=Yoram Kaniuk |authorlink=Yoram Kaniuk |work=[[Ynet]] |date=30 January 2005 |accessdate=21 August 2014}}</ref>
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[[Category:Israeli speculative fiction writers]]
[[Category:Ben-Gurion University of the Negev alumni]]
[[Category:Women science fiction and fantasy writers]]
[[Category:People from Haifa District]]
[[Category:Israeli women journalists]]
[[Category:Israeli women novelists]]
[[Category:Israeli literary critics]]
[[Category:Israeli film critics]]