Yaakov Ades

Yaakov Ades was born in 1898 in West Jerusalem

Yaakov Hai Zion Ades was born in Jerusalem in 1898. His father, Rabbi Avraham Haim Ades, came from Aleppo and settled in Jerusalem with his family in 1896. Yaakov was the youngest of four sons.

He first studied with his father. In 1910 he entered Yeshiva Ohel Moed, where he learned under Rabbi Shlomo Laniado and Rabbi Yosef Yedid Halevi. In 1919 he married Haya Esther, daughter of Rabbi Ezra Harari-Raful.

In 1920 he became a lecturer at Ohel Moed. In 1923 the students moved to the Porat Yosef Yeshiva, where he taught and later became one of its heads. His students included Ovadia Yosef and Ben Zion Abba Shaul.

From 1935 to 1943 he sat on the Sephardic rabbinical court of Jerusalem. In 1944 he became a judge in Tel Aviv and rabbi of the Aleppo community there. He headed the Jerusalem court from 1945 and joined the Rabbinical High Court in 1955.

He served on the High Court until his death in 1963. He was buried on Har HaMenuchot. His sons founded Yeshivat Kol Yaakov in his memory.