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Hadas Ragolsky is an Israeli journalist, filmmaker and lawyer.

She received her Master of Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Ragolsky is an I.F. Stone scholarship recipient for excellence in investigative reporting and human rights-related reporting. In 2002 she won the Dent Hayes Robert Scholarship for the most promising career in journalism.

A student Emmy Award winner, Ragolsky produced TV magazine pieces about an Oakland-based women's football team; the failing foster-care system in Alameda County; and a small town in Georgia that resurrected the Confederate Flag as their town flag. She received the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation College Television Award for producing a magazine show called "American Journey".

Before her graduate studies, Ragolsky worked as an investigative reporter specializing in politics, religion, and government issues for the largest Israeli daily, Yedioth Ahronoth. She was a senior researcher at the afternoon daily news show for the Israeli TV First Channel and Channel 8 and a morning show producer at Tel Aviv Radio Station. Ragolsky Graduated from Tel Aviv University Law School and was admitted to the Israeli bar in May 2001.