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The Chief Rabbi of Israel is a religious appointment that began at the time of the British Mandate in Palestine, and continued through to the State of Israel.The post has two nominees, one for the Ashkenazi communities that came from Europe, and one for the Sefaradic communities from North Africa and the Middle East.
Dov Yaffe (1928–2017), Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi; Amnon Yitzhak (1953–), Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel; Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal scholar, "de facto" leader of Sephardic Jewry; Amram Zaks (1926–2012), Rosh Yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak
21st-century Israeli rabbis (1 C, 64 P) Rabbis in Israel by city (5 C) Israeli rabbis by denomination (3 C) I. Israel Defense Forces rabbis (13 P)
Shlomo Amar – Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel; David Hartman; Avraham Yitzchak Kook – pre-state Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of the Land of Israel, [55] (1865–1935) Israel Meir Lau – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1993–2003), Chief Rabbi of Netanya (1978–88), (1937–) Aharon Lichtenstein; Yona Metzger – Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israeli diplomat, politician and author born in Tangier; Ralph Benmergui, Canadian media personality, born in Tangier; Raphael Berdugo, dayan, scholar, and rabbi; Salomon Berdugo, poet and rabbi from Meknes; Frida Boccara, singer from Casablanca; Aryeh Deri, Israeli politician, a former leader of Shas Party; Edmond Amran El ...
Haredi rabbis in Israel (5 C, 126 P, 1 F) I. Israeli Modern Orthodox rabbis (18 P) R. ... Ya'akov Gil (politician born 1908) Yehuda Gilad (politician) Yehudah Glick;
The position is often defined by the country's secular authorities, and may also apply to leaders of the Jewish community in a given city. There may be separate Ashkenazi and Sephardi Chief Rabbis, representing the two main cultural divisions of the Jewish diaspora. There is an overall worldwide list, and specialized lists.
Gabbai was born in Egypt in 1949 to Jewish immigrant parents. His father was born in Baghdad to a family of rabbis. He came to Egypt as a child with his family, and traded in silk shirts. Gabbai's mother came from a family originally from Leghorn, Italy. They met and married in Egypt. Gabbai's maternal grandmother was born in Salonica, Greece.