Ariella Graetz Bartuv grew up the daughter of a Conservative rabbi, married an Orthodox Jew of Iraqi descent, and became a Reform rabbi. She was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem. She served as the congregation manager of Kibbutz Hanaton while it was being rebuilt and renewed into a liberal, Zionist, pluralistic community. She currently serves as the rabbi at the Reform Congregation Emet Veshalom in Nehariya in the West Galilee in Israel and is the spiritual advisor for schools in northern Israel.