Dafna Hacker

Dafna Hacker was born in 1969 in Jerusalem

Hacker was born in Jerusalem in 1969 and grew up there. Her mother served as legal adviser to the Ministry of Finance. She attended Rene Cassin Alliance High School and served in the IDF.

She earned a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994 and a master's in law at the Washington College of Law in 1996. In 2004 she completed a doctorate in sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University.

She teaches at the Tel Aviv University law faculty and its Women and Gender Studies Program, which she headed from 2018 to 2022. Her research looks at law and society, with a gender view of family law. Her book Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization won the 2018 Herbert Jacob Book Prize.

She co-founded Itach, a group of women lawyers for social justice, and sat on the board of the Israel Women's Network. She resigned from the government committee on parental responsibility in divorce and opposed its conclusions. In 2022 she was elected to the UN committee on discrimination against women, and in 2024 she became chair of the Israel Women's Network.