Her father, Robert Elgrissy, an employee of CTM,[1] is a recipient of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite and her mother, Simone Cohen, is a housewife. Her childhood was marked by the Six Day War and the mass exodus of the Moroccan Jewish community. She studied at the Lycée Lyautey ,[2] where she obtained a G3 baccalaureate in marketing techniques, and continued her studies in France, at the University of Paris-Nord and obtained a technical university degree (DUT) in business and administration management, in 1978.