Shlomo Goren

Shlomo Goren ( Hebrew : שלמה גורן) (born 3 February 1917, died 29 October 1994), was an Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel who founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983. Rabbi Goren's original family name was Gorenchik . He was born in Zambrów , Poland and immigrated with his family to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925. He served in the Israel Defense Forces during three wars, wrote several award-winning books on Jewish law , and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1968. Rabbi Goren served as Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, after which he established a yeshiva in Jerusalem , which he headed until his death.

Shlomo Goren ( Hebrew : שלמה גורן) (February 3, 1917 – October 29, 1994), was an Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel , a Talmudic scholar and foremost authority on Jewish law . He founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, after which he established a yeshiva in Jerusalem , which he headed until his death. He served in the Israel Defense Forces during three wars, wrote several award-winning books on Jewish law , and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1968.

Shlomo Goren ( ; February 3, 1917 – October 29, 1994), was an Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel , a Talmudic scholar and foremost authority on Jewish law ( Halakha ). He founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, after which he established a yeshiva in Jerusalem , which he headed until his death. He served in the Israel Defense Forces during three wars, wrote several award-winning books on Jewish law, and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1968.

Polish-born Israeli rabbi (1917–1994) Shlomo Goren ( Hebrew : שְׁלֹמֹה גֹּרֶן ; 3 February 1918 – 29 October 1994), was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Talmudic scholar . An Orthodox Jew and Religious Zionist , he was considered a foremost rabbinical legal authority on matters of Jewish religious law ( halakha ). In 1948, Goren founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a position he held until 1968. Subsequently, he served as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv–Jaffa between 1968 and his 1972 election as the Chief Rabbi of Israel ; the fourth Ashkenazi Jew to hold office. After his 1983 retirement from the country's Chief Rabbinate, Goren served as the head of a yeshiva that he established in Jerusalem . Rabbi Goren in 1949 While serving in the IDF, Goren fought in three of the Arab–Israeli wars , and wrote several award-winning books on halakha . In his autobiography Oz ve-ta'atsumot , page 21, Rabbi Goren writes that he was born at the end of 1917.