Orly Taitz

Orly Taitz (born August 30, 1960) is a figure in the "birther" movement, a conspiracy theory which challenges whether Barack Obama is a natural-born citizen eligible to serve as President of the United States. She has also run for statewide office in California three times and is a dentist, lawyer, and former real estate agent. She also promotes a number of other allegations both related and unrelated to Obama, and has initiated a number of lawsuits on behalf of the "birther" movement.

Early life and immigration

Orly Taitz was born to a Jewish family in Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, in the Soviet Union (present-day Moldova). Both of her parents were science teachers. In 1981, Orly immigrated to Israel, where she obtained a dentistry degree at Hebrew University. In 1987, she met Yosef Taitz who proposed four months later. Orly immigrated to the United States in May 1987, marrying the Latvian-born Yosef in Las Vegas. Taitz became a naturalized United States citizen in 1992. She received her law degree from Taft Law School and was admitted to practice law in California in December 2002.