Rabbanit Dr. Gisser has been involved in educational initiatives for many years. She lectures on education at Herzog College in Gush Etzion, and on Midrashic literature at Ono Academic College. Gisser is the former head of the Bat Ami national civil service organization. She was a founder and director of Yesodot - Center for Torah and Democracy, and established a project to absorb new immigrants who had come from Ethiopia in Operation Solomon into the Ofra Ulpana (religious girls high-school). She is a graduate of the second cohort of the Mandel School for Educational Leadership. Gisser is a member of the executive committees of various public, social, and Torah projects. She loves and is committed to the Jewish people and Israeli society, and strives to be involved in doing good.
Rabbanit Gisser was born in 1959 and is a resident of Ofra, in the Binyamin region. She is the mother of Rut Rivka, Tamar, Ateret and Daniel Yehudah and grandmother of a sweet, lovable gang. Yaffa is married to Avi, Rabbi of the Ofra community, an educator and jurist.