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Chief Rabbinate of Israel

Leading authority of Judaism in Israel

  • Dated from 1921 CE
Who held it Compare

Overview

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Who held it, in order

A sequence of office-holders, not a family genealogy.

  • 7 holders
  • 1 overlap
  • 3 gaps
  • 1 step named in the records
  • 1 undated
  1. 1836 CE – 1840 CE Samuel Holdheim German rabbi and author (1806-1860)

  2. Gap about 81 years with no holder recorded

    1st 1921 CE – 1935 CE Abraham Isaac Kook chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine (1865-1935)

  3. Gap about 38 years with no holder recorded

    1973 CE – 1983 CE Shlomo Goren Israeli military officer and rabbi (1917–1994)

  4. Overlap held at the same time as Shlomo Goren

    1973 CE – 1983 CE Ovadia Joseph Talmudic scholar, posek and Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983
  5. 1983 CE – 1993 CE Mordechai Eliyahu Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993)

  6. Gap about 20 years with no holder recorded

    2013 CE – 2024 CE Isaac Joseph Israeli chief (Sephardi Jewish) rabbi

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