Last updated on:
9/7/2007 |
Author: ProCon.org
Abraham Isaac Kook Biography
- Title:
- First Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of June 4, 2007
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Organizations/VIPs/Others
Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- First Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandate Palestine
- Founder of the (now) Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Israel
- Spiritual leader and theorist of the Religious Zionist movement
- After World War I, became Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem
- Emigrated to (then) Ottoman Palestine as Rabbi of Jaffa, 1904
- Involved in the activities which led to the 1917 Balfour Declaration
- Became Rabbi of the Spitalfields Great Synagogue (Machzike ha-Das, “upholders of the faith”), Whitechapel, England, 1916
- Became the Rabbi of Bausk, Latvia, 1895
- Education:
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- Volozhin Yeshiva, Lithuania
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- Born in Griva, Latvia, 1865, died in 1935