Shaked was born Ayelet Ben Shaul in Tel Aviv to a well-educated upper-middle-class Israeli family.
Her paternal grandmother immigrated to Israel from Iraq as a single mother in the 1950s as part of the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, carefully investing her money in property and the education of her children.
 Her father was an accountant and voted Likud.
 Shaked describes herself as 'half-Iraqi and proud of it'.
Her mother, a Bible teacher, was from a center-left Ashkenazi family whose ancestors migrated to Palestine from the Russian Empire and Romania in the 1880s as part of the First Aliyah.

She grew up in the upper-middle-class Bavli neighborhood of Tel Aviv.
She identified her political awakening and right-wing orientation to when she was 8 years old, after watching a television debate between Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres, where she supported the right-wing views of Shamir.
 As a teenager, she was a main instructor in the Hebrew Scouts Movement in Israel.
At high-school, she held right-wing views but was not highly political.

She served in the IDF as an infantry instructor in the Golani Brigade, serving in the 12th Barak (Lightning) battalion and Sayaret Golani (the special forces unit within the Golani Brigade).
It was while she was in the army, that her right-wing views were strengthened.
At Tel Aviv University, she obtained a BSc in electrical engineering and computer science.
She began her career in the Tel Aviv high-tech industry, working as a software engineer at Texas Instruments and later becoming manager of the company's marketing.
Shaked was born Ayelet Ben Shaul in Tel Aviv to a well-educated upper-middle-class Israeli family. Her paternal grandmother immigrated to Israel from Iraq as a single mother in the 1950s as part of the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, carefully investing her money in property and the education of her children.  Her father was an accountant and voted Likud.  Shaked describes herself as 'half-Iraqi and proud of it'. Her mother, a Bible teacher, was from a center-left Ashkenazi family whose ancestors migrated to Palestine from the Russian Empire and Romania in the 1880s as part of the First Aliyah.
She grew up in the upper-middle-class Bavli neighborhood of Tel Aviv. She identified her political awakening and right-wing orientation to when she was 8 years old, after watching a television debate between Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres, where she supported the right-wing views of Shamir.  As a teenager, she was a main instructor in the Hebrew Scouts Movement in Israel. At high-school, she held right-wing views but was not highly political.
She served in the IDF as an infantry instructor in the Golani Brigade, serving in the 12th Barak (Lightning) battalion and Sayaret Golani (the special forces unit within the Golani Brigade). It was while she was in the army, that her right-wing views were strengthened. At Tel Aviv University, she obtained a BSc in electrical engineering and computer science. She began her career in the Tel Aviv high-tech industry, working as a software engineer at Texas Instruments and later becoming manager of the company's marketing.
Ayelet Shaked