Published in International Family Law, Policy and Practice (2014), this article explores the familistic characteristics of privacy in Israeli law. This includes both decisional privacy – the right to make one’s own major decisions as to life and lifestyle, and informational privacy - control of personal data, at least as between spouses. Even as other jurisdictions have largely individualized privacy rights of spouses, Israeli law continues to treat privacy as extending to the family as an entity. The article extends its findings and investigation to several emerging areas of law, including: rights to fertilized ova, organ donation, privacy rights of the dead, forensic use of familial DNA, and 'honor killings'.