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After All, Who is Women of The Wall? 

Hoffman is a Sabra who was born in Haifa in 1954. His mother, Varda Blakeman, was the first child born in Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. His American-born father, Charles Weiss, worked as a Voice of America correspondent in Israel. Anat Hoffman is an Israeli activist and former executive director of the Israeli Religious Action Center, also known as IRAC. She is the founding director and member of Neshot Hakotel, also known as the Women of the Wall.

Hoffman is a former member of the Jerusalem City Council. In 2013, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz named him “Person of the Year”, noting that the award “reflects the prominence he has achieved throughout the Jewish world over the past 12 months”. The Jerusalem Post ranked her fifth on its list of the 50 most influential Jews for bringing the issue of women’s rights at the Kotel “to the forefront of world Jewish consciousness”.

From 2002 to 2022, Hoffman served as executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center, founded in 1987 as the public and legal advocacy arm of the movement for progressive Judaism in Israel. It is dedicated to promoting equality, justice, religious freedom.