Zephaniah Drori

Rabbi Zephaniah Drori ( _he. צפניה דרורי, b. March 13, 1937 (1st of Nissan, 5697) is the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Shmona, Israel and the rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva. He is the head of the Aguda LeHitnadvut (a Sherut Leumi contracting organization) and Av Beit Din of the northern conversion beit din.

Drori is considered by many to be a leading scholar of the Religious Zionist camp. He first studied at the Bnei Akiva Kfar HaRoeh high school yeshiva while Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neria was the rosh yeshiva. Later, he helped establish Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh and then studied at Mercaz haRav yeshiva becoming a prime student of the Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. Drori helped found the adjacent Yeshivat Yerushalayim L’Tzeirim Yeshiva High School.

In 1968, with the blessing of Rabbi Kook, Drori moved to Israel's northern border city, Kiryat Shmona, and became the chief rabbi. In 1977, he established the "Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva".