Kisse Rahamim yeshivah
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Kisse Rahamim yeshivah is an
Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pa ...
yeshiva A yeshiva (; he, ישיבה, , sitting; pl. , or ) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are st ...
h in Bnei Brak, Israel, which perpetuates the traditions of the
Tunisian Jews The history of the Jews in Tunisia extended nearly two thousand years and goes back to the Punic era. The Jewish community in Tunisia is no doubt older and grew up following successive waves of immigration and proselytism before its develo ...
. It was founded in
Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...
in 1962 and moved to Bnei Brak in 1971.
Meir Mazuz Meir Mazuz (born March 27, 1945, in Tunisia) is a political leader and Sephardic Haredi rabbi in Israel, the dean of the Kisse Rahamim yeshivah, and the son of rabbi Matzliah Mazuz of Tunis (1912-1971), who was assassinated. Meir Mazuz serves a ...
, a leading Sephardic
Rabbi A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as ''semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of ...
in
Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, is the dean of the Kisse Rahamim yeshivah.Leading Haredi rabbi: Lapid, Liberman are traitors to their people, worse than Nazis
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Official website
(in Hebrew)
Official website
(in French) Jews and Judaism in Tunis Orthodox yeshivas in Israel Sephardi Jewish culture in Israel Sephardic yeshivas Tunisian-Jewish culture in Israel {{judaism-org-stub