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Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
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Rabbi Israel Meir Lau was born in 1937 in Pyotrekov, Poland. A survivor of
the Buchenwald concentration camp, he lost both of his parents in the
Holocaust. In 1946 he immigrated to Israel, where he lived with his uncle
and studied at a state religious school in Kiryat Shmuel. He then studied at
three yeshivas: Kol Torah in Jerusalem, Knesset Hizkiya in Zichron Ya'akov
and Ponovitz in Bnei Brak.
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1971 | Ordained as a rabbi |
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1971 | Headed Or Torah congregation in Tel Aviv |
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1971-1979 | Rabbi of North Tel Aviv |
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1979-1988 | Chief Rabbi of Netanya |
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1983 | Elected a member of Chief Rabbinical Council, serving on
committee for medical ethics |
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1988-1993 | Chief Rabbi and President of the Rabbinical Court of Tel
Aviv-Yafo |
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1993-2003 | Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel |
Rabbi Lau's publications include Yahadut - Halacha Le'maase (1975) on the
practice of Judaism and Yachel Israel (1993), two volumes on medicine,
ethics and Jewish customs.
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