She'ar Yashuv Cohen
She'ar Yashuv Cohen ( Hebrew שאר ישוב כהן; born November 4, 1927 in Jerusalem ; . d 5. September 2016 in Haifa ) was Rabbi and since 1975 the Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jews in Haifa.
She'ar Yashuv Cohen was born the son of David Cohen and his wife Sarah Etkin into a traditional rabbi family. Unlike his father, he did not choose to be strict Nazarite , but studied the Torah to become a rabbi.
In the Israeli War of Independence he was a member of the Hagana , was wounded in the battle for Jerusalem and was taken prisoner by the Jordanians . Cohen was a member of the Israel Defense Forces for years , where he served as a military rabbi and chief rabbi of the Air Force . As a candidate for the National Religious Party ( Mafdal ), he was elected deputy mayor - an office he held after the city was reunified in the Six Day War . As a volunteer he took part in the Yom Kippur War , in which he advanced as a military rabbi with his unit across the Suez Canal . In 1975 he succeeded Yehoshua Kaniel in the office of Grand Rabbi of Haifa.
Cohen's wife Naomi, who also comes from a rabbi dynasty, is a granddaughter of the US entrepreneur Harry Fischel . His sister was married to the senior Ashkenazi military rabbi Shlomo Goren , who was Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi of Israel from 1973 to 1983 . Cohen's candidacy for this office failed in 1983, as in 1993, due to insufficient support.
Cohen was the founder of various religious institutes in Israel, president of the Harry Fishel Institute, advisor to the Grand Rabbinate of Israel, for which he worked as a representative in interreligious dialogue with Christians and Muslims.
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- ↑ timesofisrael.com , accessed March 10, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cohen, She'ar Yashuv |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli Grand Rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jerusalem |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th September 2016 |
| Place of death | Haifa |