Yisroel Yaakov Fisher

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name = Yisroel Yaakov Fisher


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birth_date = Birth date|1928|7|9 (21 Tammuz 5688 Anno Mundi)
birth_place = Jerusalem, Mandate of Palestine
death_date = Death date and age|2003|2|28|1928|7|9 (25 Adar I 5663 Anno Mundi)
death_place = Jerusalem
resting_place = Har HaMenuchot
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residence = Jerusalem
nationality = flagicon|Israel Israel
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occupation = Rabbi
religion = Haredi Orthodox Judaism
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children = Aharon
Yehuda
Moshe
relatives = Moshe Braverman (s-i-l)
Y. Rotman (s-i-l)


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Yisroel Yaakov Fisher, (1928 - 2003), was a leading posek, Av Beit Din of the Edah HaChareidis and rabbi of the Zichron Moshe neighbourhood in Jerusalem.

He was born in Jerusalem in 1928 to Rabbi Aharon Fisher, a prominent member of the Perushim community. He was named after the political activist Jacob Israël de Haan who had been assassinated four years earlier. As a teenager he studied in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva and became a close student of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. He was later married to the daughter of Rabbi Zelig Wallis and they settled in Batei Horodno area of Jerusalem.

In 1961 was appointed as a "moreh tzedek" and two year later, in 1963, he was invited to serve as rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Zichron Moshe. In 1974 he was made a member of the Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis. In 1996 he was appointed Av Beit Din of the Edah HaChareidis.

He died in 2003 and is buried on Har HaMenuchot.

Works

*"Even Yisroel" — several volumes of responsa

ource

* [http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives5763/PKD63arfisher.htm HaRav Yisroel Yaakov Fisher, by Betzalel Kahn (Dei'ah veDibur)]