Kinneret Shiryon

Kinneret Shiryon, born Sandra Levine (1955 in the United States)[1][2] is the first female rabbi in Israel.

[3] She is the spiritual leader of Kehillat Yozma, Modi'in's Reform congregation, which she helped establish[4] in 1997; Kehillat Yozma is the first non-Orthodox congregation in Israel to receive state funding for its synagogue.

"[7] She also directed the University Student Outreach programs at UAHC's International Department of Education in Jerusalem.

[8] Shiryon was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York in 1981.

[9][8] The 2022 art exhibit “Holy Sparks”, shown among other places at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, featured art about twenty-four female rabbis who were firsts in some way;[10][11] Heddy Breuer Abramowitz created the artwork about Shiryon that was in that exhibit.