XXth century CE

Israeli rabbi and politician (1924–2010)

Israeli rabbi

person associated with Hebrew manuscripts

Biblicist, professor at Bar-Ilan University (of which he was one of the founders), contributor to the biblical commentary Da'at Miqra. He received the distinction Yakir Yeroushalayim.

Chief Rabbi of Tehran and posek, directing schools and Iranian Jewish institutions.

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli educator

Born in Sana'a, emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1929, butcher in Tel-Aviv, he founded in 1942 the « Mif'al le-hasifat ginzei Teiman » (project for the uncovering of Yemenite manuscripts). Over…

Israeli politician

Scholar at Bar-Ilan, specialist in Hebrew, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic, he founded the scientific study of poetry, literature and liturgy of the Jews of Yemen. Recipient of the Israel Prize (1996), the…

Israeli rabbi

Rosh yeshiva

Descendant of the Stretyn dynasty, born in Safed, ordained in Jerusalem (notably by A. I. Kook and Y. H. Sonnenfeld). Brother-in-law, disciple and friend of Yehuda Ashlag, whose commentary on the…

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

American-British violinist and conductor, a child prodigy who became a committed humanist. He founded a music school and worked for reconciliation.

Israeli novelist born in Warsaw.

Israeli poet and writer born in 1935, raised at Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh. She published her first collection in 1962 and published a dozen volumes of poetry as well as children's books, biographies and…

Hungarian rabbi

Haredi rabbi and Rosh yeshiva

One of the roshei yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha (Lakewood).

Israeli rabbi

Israeli scientist and philosopher, radical thinker of Halakha as the disinterested service of God. He was a leading critical voice in Israeli public life.

Born and raised in Tel-Aviv, enlisted in the Palmach at age 18. Major general in the IDF, head of the Southern Command (1965–1969), he led the Israeli offensive in the Sinai during the Six-Day War…

Israeli religious scholar

Bibliographer who devoted about twenty years to the « Otzar ha-Sefer ha-Ivri » (Thesaurus of the Hebrew Book), an inventory describing approximately 32,000 Hebrew books printed in the world from the…

Political scientist and Russian Jewish orientalist born in Moscow in 1959, specialist in the Middle East and Israel. President of the Congress of Russian Jews (2001–2004), founder-president of the…

Hasidic Rabbi

Israeli soldier, member of the Knesset and archaeologist

Israeli historian born in Tel-Aviv in 1936, trained at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, teaching at the Kibbutzim College and at Sapir Academic College. He devoted his work to a critical…

Israeli politician

Israeli rabbi

Contemporary Israeli novelist, thrillers and memory.

Israeli politician (1913-1970)

rabbi (1923-2017)

Holocaust survivor, oldest living man

Israeli rabbi

Rebbe (Grand Rabbi) of Skulen in Brooklyn, New York (1923-2019)

American rabbi

Rabbi and Kabbalists

2nd Rebbe of the Dushinsky Hasidic dynasty of Jerusalem, Israel

American-Israeli religious leader

One of the four roshei yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha (Lakewood).

Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Vodaath and Mora d'Atra of Agoudath Israël of Madison (Brooklyn). His weekly Saturday evening class on the Neviim ("Motzaei Shabbos Navi") is broadcast in…

Israeli rabbi

Polish-born rabbi

Last dayan of Vilna, founder of the yeshiva Netzach Yisroel in Jerusalem.

Bohush Rebbe

Mayor of Bnei Brak

Rabbi of Fès, twentieth century. Died in 5661 of the Hebrew era (1901). Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 76-2.

Israeli rabbi

American Haredi rabbi

French rabbi

Dean of the yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, author of Pachad Yitzchak.

Son and successor of Yosef Meir Weiss, author of the Chakal Yitzchak. Assassinated at Auschwitz in 1944 with thirty-one members of his family.

Rosh yeshiva at the yeshiva of Mir, Jerusalem.

rabbi (1922-2021)

Rabbi (1929-2001)

Chief Rabbi (1926–2022)

Hungarian rabbi

Russian Rabbi

Yitzhak Nisimovitch Mavashev, born in 1905 in Samarkand and died in 1978 in Jerusalem, was a writer, linguist, philosopher and journalist who pioneered the study of the cultural heritage of Bukharan…

Born Izo Hertzig in Siret (Romania) into a Hasidic family, he was one of the leaders of the HaNoar HaTzioni youth movement and of Zionist resistance in Romania during the Second World War, organizing…

Israeli Talmudist (1919–1997), professor at Bar-Ilan University, specialist in the history of halakha's development. Author of a reference monograph on R. Eliezer ben Hyrcanos and a collection of…

Poet, writer and Israeli journalist.

Israeli politician

Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel (Rishon le-Tsion), originally from Baghdad, a respected decisor. He played a role in the unification of the chief rabbinate.

Israeli writer born in Ukraine, symbolist prose.

Israeli general and statesman, Prime Minister and architect of the Oslo Accords, Nobel Peace Prize 1994. He was assassinated by a Jewish extremist.

Leading figure of Yemenite Judaism in the Land of Israel, defender of Yemenite customs (baladi, fidelity to Rambam and Maharitz). Author of an abridged code of Yemenite law, the Shulchan Aruch…

Commander of the FPO (United Partisan Organization) in the Vilna Ghetto, who surrendered himself to the Gestapo in 1943 to spare the ghetto from reprisal and died in custody shortly after.

Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel

Deputy commander of the Jewish Combat Organisation (ŻOB) and one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943; co-founder of the Lohamei HaGeta'ot kibbutz and the Ghetto Fighters' House.

Born Yohanan Kopelovich on April 16, 1952. Israeli chess player, composer, coach and arbiter, sole holder of international titles in five chess disciplines (international master, grandmaster of…

Hungarian-born Israeli rabbi

One of the four mothers of Hebrew poetry, Israel Prize 1972.

Israeli religious Zionist rabbi

Chabad rabbi (1930-2021)

Israeli rabbi

Rebbe of Satmar, founder of the largest Hasidic community in America and a figure of religious anti-Zionism. Survivor of the Kasztner transport.

Last Chief Rabbi of Aleppo (from 1959); emigrated to New York, author of the biblical commentary « Meir Tov ».

French architect

Israeli politician

religious figure (1904-1969)

Israeli-American musician from the renowned Razel musical family of Nachlaot (Jerusalem). He became known in 2009 by setting to music the piyyut « Vehi Sheamda » for Yaakov Shwekey. His album « Bein…

Israeli novelist and journalist

Israeli politician

Israeli politician

Rabbi of Fès, 20th century. Died in 5689 of the Hebrew era (1929). Son of Eliahu. Listed in Malkhei Rabbanan (Yosef Ben Naim, 1931), f. 61-3.

Israeli rabbi

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Givatayim

Jewish Hasidic religious leader and Holocaust survivor (1903–1984)

Ethiopian rabbi who immigrated to Israel

Chief Rabbi of Iran from 1994 to 2007, decision-maker and leader of the Jewish community.

Brother of the last Chief Rabbi of Syria and son of one of the last rabbis of Damascus, he now lives in Brooklyn where he serves the Syrian Jewish community of New York. In 2025, he led the first…

American historian, holder of the Salo W. Baron Chair of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University. His work "Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory" (1982) contrasts collective…

Yemenite-Israeli halakhic authority, dayan of the Supreme Rabbinical Court and one of the principal leaders of the Yemenite community in Israel. He is the editor and translator of reference works of…

Romanian rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli politician

Professor emeritus in Department of Hebrew Literature at University of Haifa

Israeli rabbi

Israeli rabbi

Israeli-Moroccan rabbi, descendant of Haïm Pinto, appointed grand rabbi of Morocco in 2019.

Russian political figure

Rabbi in Meknès, from a family originating in Demnate, he was an illustrious poet. One of his poems, « Avarekh et shem ha-El ha-gadol ve-ha-nora », was incorporated into the liturgy of the Havdala…

Doctor of philosophy, teaching Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University; specialist in the Jews of North Africa (Algeria, Morocco), first to systematically exploit the literature of responsa from…

Talmudic genius renowned for his encyclopedic erudition and conceptual method, rabbi of the Hasidim of Dvinsk. Author of the Tzafnat Paaneach.

Born in Jerusalem in 1932 into a Jewish family of Persian origin (the « Banai dynasty »), he grew up near the Mahané Yehuda market. Central figure of the Israeli scene, laureate of the Israel Prize…

Israeli politician and peace negotiator, architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords and creator of the Birthright Israel program.

Chief Rabbi of Iran and physician, current religious leader of the Jewish community.

Renowned Israeli singer born in Morocco, specializing in Oriental music (mizrahi).

Canadian singer

Israeli rabbi

American writer and activist, Jewish Renewal movement pioneer

American rabbi

Banker, politician (member of parliament, Likud among others) and Israeli diplomat, ambassador to the United States (1990–1993 and 1998–2000). Born in Danzig in a Jewish family, immigrant to…

American rabbi

Israeli linguist

Born in Rabat in 1940 in a Zionist family (his father was a rabbi), he emigrated to Israel in 1948. Major figure of Israeli cinema and the "bourekas" genre, he acted in over 40 films and directed…

Rabbi born in Algiers, recognized figure in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora of the renewal of North African Sephardic Judaism, decisioner (Morei Horaah) for the chief rabbinate of Jerusalem. His…

American rabbi

American linguist

former Governor-General of Australia (1919–2011)

Czech writer and film director

Israeli rabbi

American actor

Israeli politician

Dayan and president of the rabbinical court, buried in the rabbinical necropolis (Midrach) of Algiers; presented as one of the first rabbis of the Morali family in Algiers.

American rabbi

Israeli actor and comedian of Georgian Jewish origin, known for his role in the sitcom "Shemesh" (1997–2004). His family immigrated to Israel when he was nine months old. He became religiously…

American rabbi

Israeli educator and writer

Born in Chemnitz in an East European Jewish family, trained in Prague under Alois Hába (from 1937), friend of Viktor Ullmann. He archived the synagogal chants of Prague and composed several works of…

Soviet Russian rabbi

Panamanian rabbi

Zohra al-Fassia, born around 1905 in Sefrou and died in 1994 in Israel, is a great diva of Judeo-Moroccan music, often presented as the first Moroccan woman to write, compose and sing publicly and to…

Hungarian politician

Georgian statesman, former prime minister

Hebrew poet born in Bender (Bessarabia) in a Jewish family, arrived as a child to Ein Harod (1924) where he lived until his death. One of the first members and poets of the Palmach: he wrote the…

American actress

Israeli rabbi

Israeli historian born in Tarnów (Poland) in 1920, graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Columbia University. He taught at Tel-Aviv, the Hebrew University, Ohio State and Columbia, was…

Israeli writer

American rabbi

Hungarian Orthodox Rabbi