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Rachel Azaria (Hebrew: רחל עזריה; born 21 December 1977), is a social activist and was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kulanu. She previously served as deputy mayor and member of the Jerusalem City Council.

Rachel Azaria was born in Jerusalem to Israel Azaria,[citation needed] a Tunisian-Jewish immigrant to Israel, and Sharon Friedman,[citation needed] an American Jewish immigrant to Israel at age 18. She grew up on moshav Beit Gamliel[citation needed] and was educated in the National Religious school system.

After serving in the Israel Defense Forces, Azaria studied at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she earned a BA in Psychology and a master's degree in conflict resolution.

She won the Tami Steinmetz Prize for her master's thesis on the self-perception of the founders of the first Israeli settlements in Samaria.[citation needed] She was a member of the debating team at the Hebrew University, participating in debates in the European and World Championships. She participated in the Shalom Hartman Institute's Young National Religious Leadership program from 2001 to 2003. She is fluent in English.

Azaria is married to Elyashiv, a Talmud teacher, and has four children, and lives in Jerusalem. She held US citizenship prior to her entering the Knesset, when she had to give it up as a condition of becoming an MK.

In 2015 her grandmother immigrated from the USA.

Since 1998, Azaria has been engaged in social activism. She serves as a member of the Board of Green Course, Israel's largest volunteer environmental organization. She has also been involved in issues related to Israel's national health basket, the Ashkelon coal plant, and the social impact of government economic plans.

Azaria was Director of Mavoi Satum from 2004-2007. It is a nonprofit organization which assists Jewish women who have been denied a get, a religiously accepted divorce, by their husbands. Under her leadership, the number of women who received a get with assistance from the organization tripled, and Mavoi Satum won recognition as the main advocacy organization in this field in Israel.

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