Rivka Ravitz

Rivka Ravitz was born in 1976 in Israel

Rivka Ravitz was born in Israel in 1976 to parents who immigrated from the United States. She is the second of 10 children. She studied in the Bais Yaakov school system and finished with an English teaching certificate.

After several years of work in the Knesset, she studied management and computer science at the Open University of Israel and later earned an MBA there. As of 2017, she was working on a PhD in public policy at the University of Haifa.

She married at 18 and taught part-time, then became a parliamentary assistant to her father-in-law, Rabbi Avraham Ravitz. A new law against hiring relatives led her to leave after 3 years, and in 1999 she began working for Reuven Rivlin. She became his bureau chief, ran his campaigns for Knesset Speaker in 2003 and 2009, and became his chief of staff after his election as president in 2014.

As chief of staff, she managed the president's staff, meetings and state visits, while keeping Shabbat, kashrut and other religious practices. She drew media attention as a Haredi mother in a senior public role.

In January 2023 she published her memoir, "Em VaEretz". In March 2024 she became chief of staff to Beit Shemesh mayor Shmuel Greenberg, and in May 2026 she left for a post at Hadassah Women. She is married to Yitzhak Ravitz, head of the Kiryat Ye'arim council.