Yisrael meir lau biography

Yisrael Meir Lau

Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, 1993-2003
Date of Birth: 01.06.1937
Country: Israel

Content:
  1. Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
  2. Early Life and Holocaust Survival
  3. Education and Career
  4. Chief Rabbi of Israel
  5. Public and Social Activism
  6. Literary Works
  7. Legacy

Rabbi Israel Meir Lau

Israel Meir Lau is a distinguished Israeli rabbi who served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1993 to 2003.

Early Life and Holocaust Survival

Born in Poland in 1937, Lau's childhood was marked by the horrors of the Holocaust.

His family was imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto, and in 1942, his father and brothers were murdered in Treblinka.

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Lau and his mother were taken to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where his mother perished. He survived the Holocaust in Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was saved by a Russian teenager named Fyodor Mikhailichenko.

Education and Career

After the war, Lau immigrated to Israel and completed his religious education.

He received rabbinic or yisrael meir lau biography2 GAXOW