Religion
Israel.com has a biography of each of 140 Israeli rabbis and religious figures
140 biographies, those known in the most languages first. 5 of them are women and 50 are living.
Elie Wiesel1928 to 2016The Holocaust memoir Night
Martin Buber1878 to 1965The philosophy of dialogue
Elazar Shach1898 to 2001Dean of the Ponevezh Yeshiva
Benzion Netanyahu1910 to 2012Research on the Spanish Inquisition
Yehuda Ashlag1880 to 1954The Sulam commentary on the Zohar
Isaac Josephborn 1952Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Adin Steinsaltz1937 to 2020The Steinsaltz edition of the Talmud- Yisrael Meir Lauborn 1937Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Yitzhak Kaduri1898 to 2006Kabbalah teaching
Baba Sali1889 to 1984Blessings and miracles
Michael Melchiorborn 1954Leading the Meimad party
Uri Zohar1935 to 2022Directing Hole in the Moon
Joseph Burg1909 to 1999Founding the National Religious Party
Menachem Elon1923 to 2013Research on Jewish law
Moshe Gafniborn 1952Leading Degel HaTorah
Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz1878 to 1953The Chazon Ish book series
David Lauborn 1966Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Shlomo Amarborn 1948Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel
Zerach Warhaftig1906 to 2002Signing the Declaration of Independence
Ben-Zion Dinur1884 to 1973The 1953 State Education Law
Chaim Drukman1932 to 2022Founding Yeshivat Or Etzion
Eli Ben-Dahanborn 1954Directing the rabbinical courts
Meir Bar-Ilan1880 to 1949Leading the Mizrachi movement
Rafi Peretzborn 1956Chief Military Rabbi of the IDF
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other decade
Each column is a decade, from 1850.
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116 more people in this field, each with a page of their own
- Raphael Patai1910 to 1996
Yona Metzgerborn 1953
Zvi Yehuda Kook1891 to 1982
David Weiss Halivni1927 to 2022
Dov Liorborn 1933
Isaac-Meir Levin1893 to 1971- Menachem Porush1916 to 2010
Moshe Levinger1935 to 2015
Pinchas Polonskyborn 1958
Shai Pironborn 1965
Umberto Cassuto1883 to 1951
Yehuda Leib Maimon1875 to 1962
Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman1914 to 2017
Benjamin Elon1954 to 2017
Esther Benbassaborn 1950
Hillel Kook1915 to 2001
Isaac Ginsburghborn 1944
Isaac Levyborn 1947
Jacob Asherborn 1965
Meshulam Nahariborn 1951
Shlomo Avinerborn 1943
Shlomo Benizriborn 1961
Uri Maklevborn 1957
Wolf Gold1889 to 1956
Yosef Shalom Eliashiv1910 to 2012
Aharon Lichtenstein1933 to 2015
David Rosenborn 1951
Israel Knohlborn 1952
Jacob Joseph1946 to 2013
Kalman Kahana1910 to 1991
Meir Mazuz1945 to 2025
Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik1921 to 2021
Nahum Rabinovitch1928 to 2020
rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach1910 to 1995
Shmuel Wosner1913 to 2015- Yehezkel Abramsky1886 to 1976
Yehuda Amital1924 to 2010
Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam1905 to 1994
Arthur Biram1878 to 1967
Aryeh Levin1885 to 1969
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel1880 to 1953
Eli Suissaborn 1956- Eliezer Steinman1891 to 1970
Isaac Peretzborn 1938
Isser Yehuda Unterman1886 to 1976
Meir Kesslerborn 1961
Mordechai Nurock1879 to 1962
Moshe Arbelborn 1983
Samuel Eliyahuborn 1956
Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik1886 to 1959
Zalman Nechemia Goldberg1931 to 2020
Ada Rapoport-Albert1945 to 2020
Aharon-Ya'akov Greenberg1900 to 1963
Amram Blau1894 to 1974
Avichai Rontzki1951 to 2018
Avraham Shapira1910 to 2007
Dawid Kahane1903 to 1998
Eliezer Berkovits1908 to 1992
Eliezer Waldman1937 to 2021- Galit Hasan-Rokemborn 1945
Isaac Nissim1896 to 1981
Isser Zalman Meltzer1870 to 1953
Léon Ashkenazi1922 to 1996
Menachem Hacohen1932 to 2025
Menachem Mendel Taub1923 to 2019
Mordechai Breuer1921 to 2007
Moshe Unna1902 to 1989
Moshe-Zvi Neria1913 to 1995
Natan Slifkinborn 1975
Ouri Cherkiborn 1959
Shlomo Lorincz1918 to 2009
Shlomo-Israel Ben-Meir1910 to 1971
Yaakov Aryeh Alterborn 1939
Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky1899 to 1985
Yehuda Meir Abramowicz1915 to 2007
Yitzchok Scheiner1922 to 2021
Yoav Ben-Tzurborn 1958
Yosef Azran1941 to 2010- Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman1888 to 1969
David Yosefborn 1957
Dov Landoborn 1930- Eliezer Waldenberg1915 to 2006
- Ephraim Urbach1912 to 1991
- Haim Amsalemborn 1959
Isaac Heinemann1876 to 1957
Jacob Gil1908 to 1990- Jacob Katz1904 to 1998
Meir Just1908 to 2010
Menachem Froman1945 to 2013
Menachem Mendel Kasher1895 to 1983
Michel Abitbolborn 1943
Moshe Mayaborn 1938
Moshe Ze'ev Feldman1930 to 1997
Nissim Karelitz1926 to 2019
Pinchas Kehati1910 to 1976- Rachel Eliorborn 1949
Reuven Feldman1899 to 1990
Ron Yosefborn 1974
Shalom Arushborn 1952
Shlomo Riskinborn 1940
Shmuel Auerbach1931 to 2018
Tal Ilanborn 1956
Ya'akov Moshe Toledano1880 to 1960
Yechiel Eckstein1951 to 2019
Yisroel Ber Odesser1888 to 1994
Yisroel Moshe Friedman1955 to 2020
Haim Sabatoborn 1952
Yechiel Leiterborn 1959
Yaaqov Medanborn 1950- Zvi Kogan1996 to 2024
Eyal Karimborn 1957- Shimon Gershon Rosenberg1949 to 2007
Avraham Zarbivborn 1972
Avi Rathborn 1959
Mosheh Bigelborn 1955- Yaakov Epsteinborn 1954
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