Yael Braudo-Bahat

Yael Braudo-Bahat was born in 1976

Yael Braudo-Bahat was born in 1976. Her father fought in the Yom Kippur War.

She earned a bachelor's degree in law and accounting, then a master's in law with a thesis on breastfeeding law. She received a PhD in law from Tel Aviv University, focusing on family law, feminism and legal history. Her doctoral research studied Israeli women's organizations in the state's early decades and their work for women's property rights.

She taught as an external lecturer at Tel Aviv University and was deputy editor of the journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law. From 2017 to 2018 she was a visiting professor in Israel studies at York University in Canada.

In 2014 she and Vivian Silver founded Women Wage Peace, which seeks a negotiated political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By February 2023 she was its co-director. She has criticized limits on the entry of Palestinian activists into Israel and the continuation of the Gaza war.

Silver, whom she called a mentor, was killed in the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023. In November 2023 the BBC named Braudo-Bahat to its 100 Women list.