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Sagy Watemberg Izraeli is a cotutelle doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University and in the Study of Religions at Åbo Akademi University, having received her BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her doctoral research asks, What defines membership in religious communities in multicultural legislation, from the internal perspective of the communities themselves? Her research investigates the paradoxical situation of religious women as members obligated to communities’ norms but lacking in legitimacy to claim norms. It will offer a novel conceptualisation of membership in religious communities in multicultural contexts by providing an analytical model for researching
the paradoxical situation of religious women in differing religious communities and states. Her additional interests include legal systemic justice, socio-legal studies, the concept of “Levantine” as Middle Eastern connectivity, inter-religious feminism and religious hermeneutics, and social
epistemology.