Ovadia Hedaya

Ovadia Hedaya עובדיה הדאיה
Born	24 December 1889 Aleppo, Syria, Ottoman Empire
Died	8 February 1969 (aged 79)
Language	Hebrew
Ethnicity	Jewish
Citizenship	Israeli
Notable award(s)	Israel Prize (1968)

Ovadia Hedaya (Hebrew: עובדיה הדאיה‎; born 24 December 1889, died 8 February 1969) was a leading Israeli rabbi.

Biography

Rabbi Hadaya was born in 1889 in the Aleppo, Syria (then part of the Ottoman Empire), the son of rabbi Shalom Hedaya. In 1895, he and his family left Aleppo for Jerusalem, which was also then under Ottoman rule.

In 1945, he succeded his father as head of the Yeshivat haMekubalim (Kabbalists Yeshiva) at Beit El Synagogue, the center of kabbalistic study in Jerusalem.

Awards and honours

• In 1968, Rabbi Hedaya was awarded the Israel Prize, in Rabbinical literature.^[1]

Published works

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

References

1. ^ "Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1968 (in Hebrew)". http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashkag/Tashlab_Tashkag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashkah. 

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Name	Hedaya, Ovadia
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Date of birth	24 December 1889
Place of birth	Aleppo, Syria, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	8 February 1969
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