Breakthrough: The Chief Rabbinate Opens Rabbinical Exams to Women.
Following a High Court of Justice ruling, in response to a petition we filed at the Rackman Center together with Itim and Kolech on behalf of six petitioners, the Rabbinate has announced the opening of exam registration to women as well.
The High Court ruled in July 2025 that blocking women from the exams constitutes “prohibited discrimination.” Now, after months of attempts to circumvent the ruling, the Rabbinate is finally opening the exams to women.
This is an important step in the struggle against the exclusion of women from leadership of the religious establishment in Israel and an achievement for the petitioners – Avital Engelberg, Shlomit Flint, Sarah Segal-Katz, Rachel Keren, Michelle Cohen Farber, and Shlomit Piamenta.
