Background
Regev was born in Tel Aviv in 1951 to a secular family.
Regev was born in Tel Aviv in 1951 to a secular family.
Regev studied law at Tel Aviv University Law School and went on to practice law.
Currently he serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of “Hiddush – Foreign Freedom of Religion and Equality”, a transport-denominational nonprofit organization aimed at promoting religious freedom and equality in Israel, a partnership between Israeli Jews and World Jewry, founded in 2009. As a child he had no interest in religion. His first contact with the Reform movement was in 1967, when he joined a student delegation to Jewish communities in the United States.
After returning to Israel, he joined the small Reform youth movement.
In the late 1970s, he began studying at the Reform movement′s rabbinical school, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, where he was ordained in 1986. He served in the Israeli Defense Force (Israel Defense Forces) as an assistant legal advisor in the Gaza Strip and Sinai and as military prosecutor for the Israeli Navy.
He retired from military service with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz calls him “a charismatic figure who speaks eloquently and often sharply and has an impressive work output”, and credits him and Laurence Kogan with changing the Reform Movement′s face in Israel and making IRAC the most active institution within the movement, turning it “into a factor that both the religious and political establishment cannot ignore”.
She resides in Jerusalem.
Regev is a founding member of B"Tselem, the organization monitoring human rights in the occupied territories, and has served on the boards of many Jewish organizations, including the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, Rabbis for Human Rights, and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.