Office Institution
Chief Rabbinate of Israel
Leading authority of Judaism in Israel
- Dated from 1921 CE
A seat,
and those
who held it.
Holders in order
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Succession in office
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
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1836 CE – 1840 CE Samuel Holdheim German rabbi and author (1806-1860) -
Gap about 81 years with no holder recorded
1st 1921 CE – 1935 CE Abraham Isaac Kook chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine (1865-1935) -
Gap about 38 years with no holder recorded
1973 CE – 1983 CE Shlomo Goren Israeli military officer and rabbi (1917–1994) -
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 -
1983 CE – 1993 CE Mordechai Eliyahu Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993) -
Gap about 20 years with no holder recorded
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2013 CE – 2024 CE Isaac Joseph Israeli chief (Sephardi Jewish) rabbi
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Dov Lior Israeli rabbi
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one holder followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
1 recorded statement points at a record with no English name anywhere, so it is counted here rather than drawn.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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A seat outlasts
whoever sits in it.