Avi Dabush

Avi Dabush (; born 8 March 1976) is an Israeli rabbi, peace activist, and politician. He is the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights.

Early and personal life Dabush was born to a Syrian-Jewish mother and Libyan-Jewish father, and raised in Ashkelon in an Orthodox Jewish family that "right-wing family that idolized Begin and voted for the National Religious Party". Dabush has lived in the kibbutz of Bror Hayil, where he founded a "Social Action Beit Midrash", and in Sderot. He, his wife, their two children, and their dog hid in a shelter near their home for eight hours until they were evacuated by the IDF. He and his family were evacuated to Eilat He founded the party's "periphery office", which aims to connect leftist politicians with "the forgotten constituencies in rural neighborhoods".

Dabush has been the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights since 2019

He has published The Periphery Rebellion (Pardes Publishing House), a memoir and analysis of "the relations between Israel’s center and its periphery".

In January 2026, he addressed the Knesset's National Security Committee to oppose the bill providing for the death penalty for terrorists. He declared ″I can understand the emotions, including feelings of revenge. But this proposal existed even before October 7. It is simply exploiting those emotions - and in my view, exploiting them cynically.″

In The Democrats primary elections held on July 20, 2026, ahead of the 2026 Israeli legislative election, Dabush came in at number thirteen on the slate.