10 Facts About Gail Rubin

Gail Rubin was an American freelance photographer.

Gail Rubin was murdered by Palestinian Liberation Organisation members in a 1978 attack that became known as the Coastal Road massacre.

Gail Rubin began undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan and completed her degree at Finch College in New York in 1960.

Gail Rubin worked in editorial positions with Viking Press and New Directions, and became managing editor at Delacorte Books.

Gail Rubin's work was exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York in February 1977, as well as at the Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

On March 11,1978, Gail Rubin was photographing birds at Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael in northern Israel.

Gail Rubin was approached by a group of Palestinian terrorists who asked her where they were, after which they killed her and stole her car.

Gail Rubin was the first of 38 people to die in what became the Coastal Road massacre.

Gail Rubin was a relative of then-US Senator Abraham Ribicoff, who denounced her killing as "an indefensible act of terrorism that deserves universal condemnation".

Gail Rubin was buried at Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens.