Orly Erez-Likhovski

Orly Erz Likhovski Director at IRAC headshot
Director, Israel Religious Action Center

Orly Erez-Likhovski holds a bachelor's degree in law from Tel Aviv University. After interning at the Supreme Court, she received a master's degree in law with a focus on human rights law at Columbia University in New York. Orly is a member of the Bar Association in Israel and New York. Orly has served as an attorney at IRAC since 2004, as Director of the Legal Department from 2014-2021, and as Director of IRAC since 2021. Orly has brought about significant legal achievements such as making gender segregation on public transportation illegal, ending the Orthodox monopoly on state-funded salaries to rabbis, filing (and winning) the first-ever class action suit regarding the exclusion of women, and disqualifying racist candidates from running for Israel's parliament.

Mural with women's faces vandalized
WRJ YES Fund Grantee

Fighting for the Rights of Women to be Seen

Orly Erez-Likhovski
 December 9, 2022
I have been fighting gender segregation and the exclusion of women for 18 years since I joined the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC). The attempts to treat women differently and prevent them from enjoying equal rights are incomprehensible in a democratic state. WRJ has stood by IRAC in the struggle for a more equal, just, and pluralistic Israel.