Reform Weddings in Israel
Lets do it our way!
Planning your Reform or Egalitarian wedding in Israel? You've always imagined this perfect moment: now you can make it yours: ethical, Jewish, beautiful.
While your wedding ceremony in Israel is deeply intimate, it is also a community experience. The huppa (Jewish wedding canopy) is open on all sides - a symbolic gesture welcoming the world into your joy, your personal story and your values as a couple.
In this sacred moment, your wedding ceremony amd the commitment you make to each other is intertwined with a commitment to a better world.
Choosing to get married in an Egalitarian, Reform wedding in Israel is a powerful, intentional act, one that reflects a deep respect for tradition and a commitment to your past, present and future. It’s not about compromising between ancient and contemporary; it’s about harmonizing them.
Lets make wedding magic!
I Believe in a Judaism That Evolves.
Reform, Egalitarian Judaism recognizes that Jewish life doesn’t stand still. It adapts to new knowledge, to ethical growth, to your lived experience. An Egalitarian Reform wedding honors the roots of Jewish ritual while making space for modern, liberal life: your identity, your partnership, your values.
Let’s choose Meaning Over Mandate!
In the wedding ceremonies I officiate, every ritual has intention. You won’t be asked to say or do things that don’t resonate with you. You'll work with me to create a personal wedding ceremony that feels authentic and is totally you.
I Value Equality - in Every Sense
No gendered hierarchies. No one "acquires" or "belongs to" the other. No rigid roles. Your wedding ceremony will reflect the true partnership you are entering — a mutual, balanced, loving bond of marriage.
Whether you are:
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a heterosexual couple
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an LGBTQ or queer couple seeking full inclusion
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a couple that's coming to Israel for a destination wedding, or to celebrate your wedding in Israel
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A mixed American - Israeli couple
Reform Judaism welcomes you.
Unconditionally. Openly and proudly.
I Celebrate Love and Justice
Getting married is a religious celebration — but also an ethical one. Reform weddings often include blessings or intentions that affirm your shared commitment to justice, compassion, community, Israel, and dignity for all people.
In a world that often feels divided, your marriage and wedding ceremony in Israel can be a powerful expression of hope, wholeness, and integrity.
You’re Choosing Jewish Tradition — On Your Terms
By choosing a Reform wedding in Israel, you’re not walking away from Jewish tradition — you’re claiming it as your own. You’re saying: this legacy belongs to me, and I will carry it forward in a way that is real, joyful, and honest.
It’s not about doing less. It’s about doing what matters — with full heart, full soul, and full awareness.
Recommendations
We're already a few days past the wedding, still floating on a kind of cloud from the wonderful experience we had! We're also meeting and talking with friends who say it was a moving and joyful wedding – many of them point out that the wedding truly felt like us. And you were a key figure in that experience for us!
Already in our first meeting with you, we felt how important it was to you to really get to know us – each of us individually, and our shared story as a couple. And from that moment on, we knew how to face the unexpected turns along the way and create complete and beautiful expressions of ourselves through our written ketubah and the wedding ceremony.
Dana and Michael
Couples Share
" We were truly lucky to have Rabbi Naomi Efrat officiate at our wedding. As a couple, we knew Rabbi Naomi from Kehilat Halev, the Reform community she is leading. We fell in love with how warm, approachable, and caring she was, and couldn’t imagine a better rabbi for our wedding. We had three personal meetings with her in order to craft a personal and egalitarian ceremony. With the help of Rabbi Naomi, the ceremony touched our hearts and souls, and our guests loved witnessing it.
We will keep in touch with Rabbi Naomi, and we hope to see her in our future simchas! "
Tomer and Avital
Wedding stories
