Dr. Rachel Levmore is the Founder and Director of the Agunah & Get-Refusal Prevention Project of the International Young Israel Movement and the Jewish Agency for Israel. As a rabbinical court advocate, she assists Agunot in Israel and in the Diaspora to free themselves from the chains of unwanted marriage through a dignified process. Dr. Levmore revolutionized Israeli society’s view on women’s halachic personal status by participating in the authorship of the Israeli reciprocal halachic prenuptial “Agreement for Mutual Respect”, thus preventing get-refusal.

As a ground-breaking halachic scholar and author of the seminal halachic book Min’ee Einayikh Medim’ah on prenuptial agreements, PhD in Talmud & Jewish Law and decades-long social activist, Levmore has worked tirelessly to prevent get-abuse, culminating her efforts as a member of the Israel Commission for the Appointment of Dayanim. By working within Jewish law, Levmore is pulling the state religious establishment into the 21st century in the family law field, thus creating healthy family units – the building blocks of Israeli society.

Dr. Levmore made Aliyah in 1976 from the USA.