Rachel Adato

Rachel Adato was born in 1947 in Haifa

Rachel Adato was born in Haifa in 1947. She attended the Hebrew Reali School in the city.

She earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She also holds an MBA and a law degree, and she qualified as a lawyer. In 1980 she became a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics.

She was a senior doctor in the women's department of Hadassah Mount Scopus. In 1993 she became deputy director of Hadassah Ein Kerem, and in 1995 vice president of Shaare Zedek Medical Center, a post she held until 2006. From 1997 she advised the Minister of Health on women's health and chaired the National Council for Women's Health.

She served on the Mevaseret Zion council and was 35th on the Kadima list in 2006, but was not elected. She entered the Knesset in 2009 from 22nd place on the Kadima list and worked mainly on health issues. Her laws included limits on underweight models in advertising, and before the 2013 elections she joined Hatnuah and lost her seat.

Since 2017 she has been a director at Clal Insurance. In 2020 she received the Rappaport Prize for women trailblazers. She is a mother of two sons and lives in Mevaseret Zion.