Ashkenazi Chief Rabbis in the Yishuv and Israel
- Abraham Isaac Kook Abraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in Hebrew as הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, and by the acronym : (23 Feb 1921 - 1 Sep 1935)
- Isaac Halevi Herzog : (1937 - 25 Jul 1959)
- Isser Yehuda Unterman : (1964 - 1972)
- Shlomo Goren : (1972 - 1983)
- Avraham Shapira : (1983 - 1993)
- Israel Meir Lau : (1993 - 3 Apr 2003)
- She'ar Yashuv Cohen (acting): (3 Apr 2003 - 14 Apr 2003)
- Yona Metzger : (14 Apr 2003 - present)
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