Yehuda Mualam

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Yehuda Mualam

Rabbi Jehuda Mualam (* 1921 ; † October 2010 in Jerusalem ) was a Jewish scholar and spiritual leader in the Yishuv and in Israel .

At the age of 24 he became rabbi of the Twig Synagogue in the Mekor Baruch district in Jerusalem. From the age of 28 he taught for 62 years in the respected yeshivat Porat Josef in Jerusalem, to whose Rosh Yeshiva he was later appointed as successor to Ben Zion Abba Shaul.

Thousands of people attended his funeral in Har Hamenuchot Cemetery.

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  • The Jüdische Zeitung , No. 40, Zurich, October 8, 2010, page 3