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Yehoshua Zuckerman

Yehoshua Zuckerman was a Belgian-born Israeli rabbi who taught at Mercaz HaRav and Har Hamor and helped found several Torah institutions.

1938 to 2021Teaching at Mercaz HaRavCo-founding the Har Hamor yeshivaFounding the El Ami movementTeaching Rabbi Kook's writings

Born: 9 July 1938, Belgium
Died: 11 August 2021
Occupation: rabbi

Yehoshua Zuckerman was born in 1938 in Belgium

Zuckerman was born in Belgium on 9 July 1938. He went to a public school and was active in Bnei Akiva as a teenager. He also studied with Rabbi Léon Ashkenazi.

In the 1960s he moved to Israel and studied at Mercaz HaRav under Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, who later appointed him a teacher there. He did not take financial support for Torah study and worked in teaching and other jobs, including construction.

From 1968 he worked with French-speaking Jewish communities abroad and supported their immigration to Israel. He founded and led the El Ami movement and started the institutions that became the Ayelet HaShahar yeshiva in Eilat. He also initiated the Midreshet HaRova for women.

In 1997 he was among the rabbis who left Mercaz HaRav and founded the Har Hamor yeshiva. He focused on the writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook. He lived with his family in Jerusalem and died on 11 August 2021.