Abraham Isaac Kook - Israeli-Palestinian - ProCon.org

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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:

No position found as of June 4, 2007

Involvement and Affiliations:

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:

Volozhin Yeshiva, Lithuania

Other:

Born in Griva, Latvia, 1865, died in 1935