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Yisroel Yaakov Fisher

Yisroel Yaakov Fisher was a Jerusalem rabbi and posek who served as Av Beit Din of the Edah HaChareidis from 1996 to 2003.

1928 to 2003Av Beit Din of the Edah HaChareidisRabbi of Zikhron MosheThe responsa series Even Yisrael

Born: 9 July 1928, Jerusalem
Died: 28 February 2003, Jerusalem
Occupation: rabbi

Yisroel Yaakov Fisher was born in 1928 in Jerusalem

Yisroel Yaakov Fisher was born in Jerusalem to Aharon Fisher, a member of the Perushim community. He was named after Jacob Israël de Haan, a political activist close to his father. His father came from a rabbinic family.

As a teenager he studied at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and became a close student of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. He married the daughter of Rabbi Zelig Wallis, and the couple settled in the Batei Horodno area of Jerusalem.

In 1961 he became a moreh tzedek, and in 1963 he became rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Zikhron Moshe. He joined the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis in 1974 and was appointed its Av Beit Din in 1996. His halachic rulings were collected in the responsa series Even Yisrael.

He often advised people in distress to pray at the Western Wall. He died in 2003 and was buried on Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem. His son Aharon later succeeded him as rabbi of Zikhron Moshe.