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    The position of Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem was instituted centuries ago and was originally held by a member of the Sephardic community. Moses Galante served...
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    beginning of the 17th century, the title of Rishon LeZion was given to the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. In 1842, the position of "Hakham Bashi", Chief Rabbi of Constantinople...
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  • Chief Rabbi (Hebrew: רב ראשי, romanized: Rav Rashi) is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish...
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  • Zionist rabbi, Miami Beach and Chicago Chalom Messas (1913–2003), Chief Rabbi of Morocco and Jerusalem David Messas (1934–2011), Chief Rabbi of Paris Solomon...
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    Shlomo Amar (category Chief rabbis of Jerusalem)
    during his tenure was Yona Metzger. In 2014 he became the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Amar was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to Eliyahu and Mima (Miriam)...
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  • members of the council are: Rabbi David Lau—the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef—the Sephardi Chief Rabbi Rabbi Shimon Elituv—Chief Rabbi of Mateh...
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    was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine. He is considered to be one of the fathers of religious Zionism...
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  • Shlomo Amar (born 1948), former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and current Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Argov (1929–2003), Israeli diplomat...
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    Palestine portal Islam portal Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Grand Mufti Jerusalem in Islam Pro-Jerusalem Society (1918-1926) - the...
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    Zionist Rabbi David Cohen, the Nazir of Jerusalem, and the sister of Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Cohen, former deputy-mayor of Jerusalem and later Chief Rabbi of Haifa...
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    an Orthodox rabbi who serves as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Ireland between...
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    Shmuel Salant (category Chief rabbis of Jerusalem)
    Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for almost 70 years. He was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar. Shmuel Salant was born in Białystok, then part of the...
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    Mordechai Eliyahu (category Chief rabbis of Israel)
    Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem. He later served as the Rishon LeZion, or Chief Rabbi of Israel, from 1983 to 1993. As a leader of Religious Zionism, Eliyahu...
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    Shmuel Eliyahu (category Chief rabbis of cities in Israel)
    Chief Rabbi of Israel, and his wife Tzviya. As a boy, he studied at Yashlatz in Jerusalem, and later at Mercaz HaRav Kook, where he was a student of Zvi...
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    Aryeh Stern (category Chief rabbis of Jerusalem)
    November 1944) is the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, a member of the Chief Rabbinate Council of Israel, and the chief editor of the Halacha Brura and Berur...
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    Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Chaim Berlin, Chief Rabbi of Moscow She'ar Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa Haim Moussa Douek, Chief Rabbi of Egypt Jacob...
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    Yitzhak Yosef (category 20th-century rabbis in Jerusalem)
    Israeli Haredi rabbi. The Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, he also serves as the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia [he] in Jerusalem's Romema neighbourhood...
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  • Dushinsky rebbe and Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky – first Dushinsky rebbe and Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)...
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  • list of Sephardi chief rabbis of the Land of Israel documents the rabbis who served as the spiritual leader of the Sephardic community in the Land of Israel...
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    Tzvi Pesach Frank (category Chief rabbis of Jerusalem)
    scholar and served as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for several decades (1936-1960). Frank was born in Kovno, Vilna Governorate, the son of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Frank...
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    by the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Itzhak Kolitz. Rabbi Pesach Wolicki was born in Ohio on February 5, 1970 to Marsha (née Dubow) and Rabbi Jerome...
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  • Levi ibn Habib (category Chief rabbis of Jerusalem)
    also known by the acronym HaRaLBaCh, was Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem from 1525 until his death. Under King Manuel of Portugal, and when about seventeen, he...
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    Dov Lior (redirect from Rabbi Dov Lior)
    Orthodox rabbi. He served as the Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank until late 2014. He is the rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat...
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    Shalom Messas (category Chief rabbis of Jerusalem)
    (Hebrew: שלום משאש) was a Moroccan rabbi and scholar who served as Chief Rabbi of Morocco, and later as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Messas was born in Meknes,...
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    Chairman of Asra Kadisha Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis) Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss – Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem (Edah HaChareidis)...
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    Eyal Krim (category Israeli Orthodox rabbis)
    IDF chief rabbi appointment". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 11 January 2017. "Rabbi Eyal Karim sworn in as IDF chief rabbi". The Jerusalem Post...
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  • Meir Auerbach (category Chief rabbis of Jerusalem)
    became the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Meir Auerbach was born in Koło in the Duchy of Warsaw. He was a member of the rabbinic Auerbach family...
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    Yaakov Meir (category Rabbis in Jerusalem)
    he enjoyed a reputation as one of Jerusalem's most respected rabbis. Meir was born in Jerusalem in 1856, the son of successful merchant Calev Mercado...
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    with their Arab neighbors until this point. The chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem, Rabbi Joseph Hayyim Sonnenfeld, often referred to the...
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  • from Rabbi Itzhak Kolitz, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem and Dean of the Jerusalem Beth Din. Suchard founded Gateways to promote the continuity of Judaism...
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