Orly Taitz was born to a Jewish family in Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, in the Soviet Union (present-day Moldova) [REF].
Before her national news exposure, Taitz was quoted in The Orange County Register in 2006 supporting Israeli military actions against Hamas and Hezbollah,[REF] and downplaying the impact of the espionage trial of two American Israel Public Affairs Committee staffers [REF].