Aliza Lavie

Aliza Lavie is an Israeli academic and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2019, and is an expert guest lecturer at the School of Communication at Bar-Ilan University. She is also an author, publicist, media personality, and social activist. Her work focuses on gender issues and multiculturalism in Judaism and Israeli society.

Lavie studied at Bar-Ilan University, where she received a BA in 1988, an MA in 1997 and a PhD in 2002. From 2000 until her election to the Knesset in 2013, she served as a senior lecturer at the university's School of Communications. Her doctoral dissertation, "Israel Radio and Gender" (2002), dealt with the issue of gender newsreels and current affairs programs on public radio. She also spent a year as a research fellow at Brandeis University, analyzing media and gender and the cultural role of women in Judaism.

Until she began her work in the Knesset, Lavie headed the Center for Media and Religion at Bar-Ilan University. She also taught courses including Gender and Mass Communication, Radio as a Social Instrument, Media and Religion, and Advertising Products as Cultural Space.