Nahum Rakover

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Nahum Rakover is a former Deputy Attorney General in Israel, responsible for bringing modern Israeli law into conversation with traditional rabbinic law (Halakha).

Rakover is a prolific author on Jewish law and associated with the Mishpat Ivri movement. He has compiled several bibliographies on the use of Jewish law in Israeli judicial opinions, legislative deliberations, and scholarship.