Alice Shalvi, an educator and social activist, died on Oct. 2 at her home in Jerusalem. She was 96.

Dr. Shalvi was best known for her leadership of Pelech, an experimental school in Jerusalem that provides an egalitarian secular and religious education for Orthodox girls, and for her work as the founding director of the Israel Women’s Network. The network lobbies the government to reform Israeli laws treating women differently in the military, marriage, employment and for health care.

In her memoir, Dr. Shalvi wrote with pride about her Pelech students — “my girls,” she called them — who had gone on to become judges, doctors, university lecturers, curators and business executives. “They are bearing out my contention,” she wrote, “that no area in life should be closed to you just because you are female.”