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Zehorit Sorek (Hebrew: זהורית שורק; born 1975) is an Israeli LGBTQ rights activist.

Early life Sorek was born in 1975 in Bnei Darom, a Moshav shitufi in Israel's Central District. She is from a Mizrahi Orthodox Jewish family of Moroccan descent. She was raised in Jerusalem, where she "studied at the top religious Zionist schools".

Sorek attended Bar Ilan University, where she earned a master's degree in the History and Archeology of Israel.

Career Sorek is one of the founders of the Proud (LGBTQ) Religious Community in Israel.

She is a member of the lesbian rights campaign group Bat Kol.

Sorek visited the United States in conjunction with the LGBTQ organization A Wider Bridge.

Sorek was a member of the 2018 Gvanim cohort. Gvanim is a program run by the Jewish Federation which "works to strengthen Israel’s democracy by creating a cadre of leaders to spread the message of Jewish pluralism to ever-widening circles of Israelis". She came out as a lesbian at age 29,

Sorek visited Morocco for the first time in 2017.