Rabbi Yehuda Kroizer (; born May 21, 1955, in

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

) is the Chief Rabbi of

Mitzpe Yericho Mitzpe Yeriho, also spelled Mitzpeh Yericho (, ''lit.'' Jericho Lookout), is a religious Israeli settlement in the West Bank, located next to the Palestinian city of Jericho, from where it gets its name. Located 20 km east of Jerusalem and ...

and dean of

Yeshivat Haraayon Hayehudi Meir David HaKohen Kahane ( ; ; born Martin David Kahane; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Israeli Orthodox ordained rabbi, writer and ultra-nationalist politician. Founder of the Israeli political party Kach—w ...

in Jerusalem.

Biography

Kroizer studied at

Yeshivat Har Etzion Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE; ), commonly known in English as "Gush" and in Hebrew as "Yeshivat HaGush", is a Hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. It is considered one of the leading institutions of advanced T ...

and the Yeshivat HaKotel and was ordained as a rabbi. Several years after getting married, he moved to the young settlement of

, and in 1982 he was appointed as the rabbi of the settlement. In 1987, he began serving as the head of the Yeshivat HaRaayon HaYehudi in Jerusalem. He studied at Yeshivat Hakotel where he received his rabbinical ordination and became the Chief Rabbi of Mitzpe Yericho in 1982. In 1987 he became the Rosh Yeshiva of ‘’Yeshivat Haraayon Hayehudi’’ (English: The Yeshiva of the Jewish Idea) in Jerusalem. His son, Yitzhak Kroizer, became a member of the

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for

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in 2023. Kroizer is married to Shlomit, the daughter of Eliyahu Carmel and sister of Rabbi Yosef Carmel. In 2007, two of his sons, Ishai and Shlomo, who was then an officer with the rank of lieutenant, were killed in a car accident.

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