David Rosen

David Rosen was born in 1951 in Newbury

David Rosen was born in 1951 in Newbury, Berkshire, England. His parents were Bella and Rabbi Kopul Rosen, who founded Carmel College, a Jewish boarding school. His brothers Jeremy and Michael also became rabbis.

He was educated in Britain and Jerusalem and was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi at Yeshivat Har Etzion. He also served in the IDF.

In 1973 he moved to South Africa, and in 1975 he became rabbi of the Green and Sea Point Hebrew Congregation in Cape Town. He also sat as a judge on the Cape Beth Din. He preached against apartheid and co-founded the Cape Inter-Faith Forum, and the government did not renew his work permit.

He was Chief Rabbi of Ireland from 1979 to 1985 and then settled in Israel. In 1997 he became director of the Anti-Defamation League's Israel office. He later served as AJC's International Director of Interreligious Affairs and headed IJCIC from 2005 to 2009.

Based in Jerusalem, he advises the Chief Rabbinate of Israel on interreligious relations. In 2012 he joined the board of the KAICIID Dialogue Centre as its only Jewish member. He is an international president of Religions for Peace and now advises the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi.