Amram Zaks

Amram Zaks was born in 1926 in Jerusalem

Amram Yitzchak Zaks was born in Jerusalem on October 30, 1926, to Chaim Eliyahu Zalman and Esther Leah Zaks. His father sold books and religious articles. The family descended from Moshe Zaks, who came to the Land of Israel from Germany in the 19th century.

He studied at Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem. In 1948, during the War of Independence, he moved to the Slabodka yeshiva in Bnei Brak. He was among its first students and was close to its head, Rabbi Isaac Sher.

He married Esther Rivka, daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Shulman and granddaughter of Rabbi Sher. In 1960 he began teaching at Slabodka. After his father-in-law died, he became rosh yeshiva alongside his brothers-in-law.

In 1989 his daughter Devorah died, and soon after he fell ill and never fully recovered. He died on December 3, 2012, and was buried in Bnei Brak. His son-in-law Yitzchak Schwartz succeeded him as head of the yeshiva.