Eliezer Igra

Eliezer Igra was born in 1954 in Jerusalem

Eliezer Igra was born in 1954 and grew up in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem. His father, Yaakov, ran a school for the blind and later founded the Keren Or association. He studied at the Horev school and the Horev yeshiva high school.

He studied for 10 years at the Kerem B'Yavneh hesder yeshiva, and after his marriage he studied in its kollel for dayanim. He lived in Ofra and was among the founders of the settlement of Psagot.

He became a dayan in Beersheba in 1989 and head of its court in 1998. He also served for many years as rabbi of Moshav Kfar Maimon. In 2012 he joined the Great Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem, and he served there until he retired in August 2024.

In 2013 he ran for Chief Rabbi and won a vote of Religious Zionist rabbis, but withdrew 2 days before the election. In 2024 he ran again after a High Court ruling let him run past age 70. He did not reach the second round, in which Rabbi Kalman Ber was elected.

He is married to Ruhama and has 9 children. Since 2015 he has lived in Jerusalem.