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    Yehuda Amital (Hebrew: יהודה עמיטל, born Yehuda Klein; 31 October 1924 – 9 July 2010) was an Orthodox rabbi, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion,...
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    years military service. The idea of hesder yeshivas is attributed to Yehuda Amital, a rabbi and Israeli politician who served in the Haganah, fought in...
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    from which Jews had been expelled following the Kfar Etzion massacre. Yehuda Amital, a prominent rabbi and Jewish educator, was asked to head a yeshiva...
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    within a separate system called Hesder, a concept developed by Rabbi Yehuda Amital, which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the...
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  • Yehuda Amital (1924–2010), dean of Yeshivat Har Etzion, former Israeli cabinet member Yehuda Atedji (born 1961), Israeli Olympic windsurfer Yehuda Danon...
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  • based on the ideology of the Meimad movement founded in 1988 by Rabbi Yehuda Amital. It was formed by religious Zionists who supported the peace process...
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  • Orthodox rabbis who promote or have promoted this worldview include: Yehuda Amital – A Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust, he emigrated to Israel in 1944...
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    Zionist men take part in the Hesder program, a concept conceived by Rabbi Yehuda Amital which allows military service to be combined with yeshiva studies. Some...
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    counterpart, Yisrael Meir Lau, called it "a desecration of God's name". Rabbi Yehuda Amital of Gush Etzion said Goldstein had "besmirched the Jewish nation and...
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  • Kiryat Arba Council. Yehuda Etzion, a co-founder of the Ofra settlement, had been student of two rabbis, Zvi Yehuda Kook and Yehuda Amital, but was deeply...
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    Aliyah) elect to do Hesder, a five-year program envisioned by Rabbi Yehuda Amital which combines Torah learning and military service. Some distinguished...
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  • Sephardic congregation in Petah Tikva, Israel and author of Netivei Am Yehuda Amital (1924–2010), founding rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, founder of...
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    where he studied under the tutelage of Rav Aharon Lichtenstein and Rav Yehuda Amital. Ziegler received semikhah from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological...
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    his students include: His son, Zvi Yehuda Meltzer, Chief Rabbi of Rehovot, and the father-in-law of Rabbi Yehuda Amital His son, Dr. Feivel Meltzer, a professor...
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  • 1974, 1992–1996 Meir Amit, former general, minister, head of Mossad Yehuda Amital, Rabbi, former minister without portfolio, leader of Meimad Shaul Amor...
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    as a shield, they used the UN as a shield—the UN admitted it." Rabbi Yehuda Amital, a member of Peres' cabinet, called the Qana killings a desecration...
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    was a student of the Roshei Yeshiva, Rabbis Aharon Lichtenstein and Yehuda Amital and the Rosh Kollel, Rabbi Shlomo Levy. He was ordained as a Rabbi in...
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    study in the yeshiva. The Hesder Yeshiva concept is attributed to Rav Yehuda Amital. The first was Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, established in 1954; the largest...
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    aliyah, Thau studied at Yeshivat HaDarom under Rabbi Yehuda Amital. He related that Rabbi Amital introduced him into the world of Torah and the teachings...
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  • Ofir Akunis (2015) Yosef Almogi (1961–62) Shulamit Aloni (1974, 1993) Yehuda Amital (1995–96) Shaul Amor (1999) Zalman Aran (1954–55) Moshe Arens (1984–86...
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  • Hoffman, Marc Brettler, page 63 Norman Lamm, The Shema: Spirituality and Law in Judaism, p.103 Yehuda Amital, Jewish values in a changing world, p.136...
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  • Torah study. They also ran Yeshivot Hesder, an idea developed by Rav Yehuda Amital in which religious soldiers combine combat military service with learning...
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    Sho'eg ("Roaring Tribe"), published in Hebrew. Eisenberg credits Rabbi Yehuda Amital, one of the heads of Yeshivat Har Etzion, for giving him direction and...
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    Melchior entered politics with the Meimad party in 1995. When Rabbi Yehuda Amital was appointed minister without portfolio after the assassination of...
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  • framework developed by Rav Yehuda Amital, combining Torah study and military service Nahal Haredi - the IDF's Netzah Yehuda Battalion, which facilitates...
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    Yeshiva University for several years, Lichtenstein answered Rabbi Yehuda Amital's request in 1971 to join him at the helm of Yeshivat Har Etzion, located...
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    member of the Jerusalem beth din Yehuda Amital, founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Meimad movement Baruch Ashlag, kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag, the Baal HaSulam Ezra...
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    Rosh Kollel, Kollel Ohel Torah Meyer Abovitz, av beis din in Russia Yehuda Amital, rosh yeshiva, Yeshivat Har Etzion (Gush Etzion, West Bank) Ratzon Arusi...
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    Divided A Nation. Following the war, he and Hanan Porat turned to Rabbi Yehuda Amital and together they established Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut. Even...
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    beginning of the redemption”. Among his notable students were rabbis Yehuda Amital, Shaul Yisraeli, Moshe-Zvi Neria, and Avraham Zuckerman. He died in...
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