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Winner of the Israeli Golden Book Award Even during his lifetime, Rabbi Shlomo Goren (–) stood as an exemplar of rabbinic leadership, a gadol renowned..
Shlomo Goren - Biography
Shlomo Goren (Hebrew: שלמה גורן) (born 3 February 1917, died 29 October 1994), was an Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi in Israel who founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces and subsequently as the third Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983.
He served in the Israel Defense Forces during three wars, wrote several award-winning books on Jewish law, and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in 1968. Goren served as Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, after which he established a yeshiva in Jerusalem, which he headed until his death.
Rabbi Shlomo Goren's autobiography, With Might and Strength, tells the story of a precocious rabbinical student who decided to join the Israeli army.
Childhood
Goren's original family name was Gorenchik. He was born in Zambrów, Poland and immigrated with his family to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925.
Goren was raised in Kfar Hasidim, a village of religious Jews near Haifa that his father co-founded.
He began studying at the Hebron yeshiva in Jerusalem at age 12, where he was identified as