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Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg

Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg was an Israeli politician who served in the Knesset from 1949 to 1951 and from 1955 to 1963, and the author of the Torah commentary Iturei Torah.

1900 to 1963Iturei Torah commentaryKnesset Deputy SpeakerHapoel HaMizrachi activism

Born: 15 March 1900, Sokołów Podlaski
Died: 2 April 1963, Israel
Occupation: politician, Judaic scholar
Party: National Religious Party

Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg was born in 1900 in Sokołów Podlaski

Greenberg was born in 1900 in Sokołów Podlaski, then in the Russian Empire and today in Poland. He was a student and son-in-law of the Sokołów Rebbe, Yitzhak Zelig Morgenstern. He was active in the Religious Zionist youth movements Young Mizrachi and Mizrachi Pioneers.

He ran a yeshiva in his hometown until he emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1934. There he joined Hapoel HaMizrachi and sat on its executive committee.

In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset for the United Religious Front and served on the House Committee and the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He lost his seat in 1951. He returned in 1955 for the National Religious Party and served as Deputy Speaker until his death in 1963, when Moshe Kelmer replaced him.

He wrote a weekly column on the Torah portion in the newspaper HaTzofe under the pen name Y. Halevi. After his death, the columns were published by Yavneh as the book Iturei Torah.