Yisroel Yaakov Fisher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Yisroel Yaakov Fisher

Israeli rabbi

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1928

Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel

Date of Death: 28-Feb-2003

Profession: rabbi

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Yisroel Yaakov Fisher

  • Yisroel Yaakov Fisher (1928–2003), was a leading posek, Av Beit Din of the Edah HaChareidis and rabbi of the Zichron Moshe neighbourhood in Jerusalem. He was born in Jerusalem in 1928 to Rabbi Aharon Fisher, a prominent member of the Perushim community.
  • He was named after the political activist Jacob Israël de Haan who had been assassinated four years earlier.
  • As a teenager he studied in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and became a close student of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer.
  • He was later married to the daughter of Rabbi Zelig Wallis and they settled in Batei Horodno area of Jerusalem. In 1961 was appointed as a moreh tzedek and two year later, in 1963, he was invited to serve as rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Zikhron Moshe.
  • In 1974 he was made a member of the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis.
  • In 1996 he was appointed Av Beit Din of the Edah HaChareidis. He died in 2003 and is buried on Har HaMenuchot.

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