Herzog, Isaac Halevi
Herzog, Isaac Halevi (1888–1959). First Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel (though not of Palestine). After the Second World War, he travelled widely to try to find and rescue Jewish children who had been hidden with gentile families. Besides several volumes of responsa, he published Main Institutions of Jewish Law (1936, 1939). His son, Chaim Herzog, was 6th President of Israel.
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