Elyakim Schlesinger ( yi, אליקים שלעזינגער) born September 1921) of

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

is a

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and

rosh yeshiva Rosh yeshiva ( he, ראש ישיבה, pl. he, ראשי ישיבה, '; Anglicized pl. ''rosh yeshivas'') is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primar ...

. He is an international authority and serves as the President, Chairman, and Head of the Rabbinical Board of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe. He is a grandson of Moreinu Yaakov Rosenheim, one of the founders of Agudath Israel. He was born in Vienna in September 1921 and emigrated to Isreal with his family in the late 1930's. He is a son in law of Rabbi Moshe Blau. He was very close to Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, the Chazon Ish, and the Brisker Rav. Shortly sfter his marriage, in around 1947, he moved to London, England. He then opened a yeshiva named Yeshivas Rama and he still delivers lectures to its students. His wife died in 2019 after 74 years of marriage.

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