Aliza Lavie

Aliza Lavie was born in 1964 in Kfar Saba

Lavie was born in Kfar Saba. Her father, Menashe Mashiach, headed the education and culture department of the Netanya municipality, and her mother, Miriam, taught mathematics. She attended the religious Bar-Ilan High School in Netanya and was a member of Bnei Akiva.

She served in the IDF as an educator and later did similar work with the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. She earned a BA in 1988, an MA in 1997 and a PhD in 2002 at Bar-Ilan University. Her doctorate dealt with gender in news and current affairs programs on public radio.

From 2000 she was a senior lecturer at the Bar-Ilan School of Communication and headed its Center for Media and Religion. She was also active on women's issues and conversion, and helped found the Public Committee for Conversion. Her book A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book appeared in 2005.

In 2013 she was elected to the Knesset for Yesh Atid and chaired the Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality. She was re-elected in 2015 and headed the Subcommittee on Human Trafficking and Prostitution. She lost her seat in April 2019 on the Blue and White list.

She later chaired the Israel Film Council. She is married to attorney Zuriel Lavie, and they live in Netanya with their four children.