13 November 1932), professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, is an Israeli former deputy attorney general.

Rakover is a leading researcher in the application of traditional Jewish rabbinic law to Israel's state legal system.

[1] In addition to important monographs, he has compiled several bibliographies on the use of Jewish law in Israeli judicial opinions, legislative deliberations, and scholarship.

[2] Rakover's 2-volume "Jewish Law in the Debates of the Knesset" explores the applications of Jewish law to the problems of modern Israeli society from a legislative rather than a judicial perspective.

[3] Rakover has been the main author and editor for The Jewish Legal Heritage Society.