Rav Yisroel Yaakov Fisher zt"l
הרב ישראל יעקב בן אהרן פישר זצ"ל
Adar 25 , 5763
Rav Yisroel Yaakov Fisher zt"l
Rav Yisroel Yaakov Fisher (1925-2003), head of the Eidah HaHareidis Rabbinical Court in Yerushalayim. Rav Fisher was born in Yerushalayim on the 21st of Tamuz, the day that Yisrael Yaakov Dehaan was killed in what many said was the first political assassination in modern Israeli history. Dehaan changed his lifestyle and became a chareidi Jew, and Rav Aharon Fisher named his newborn son Yaakov Yisrael after him. Rav Aharon’s father was Rav Shlomo, av beis din of Karlsburg, Hungary, and author of Neiros Shlomo and Korbanei lachmi. Rav Yaakov Yisrael learned at Etz Chaim under Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, who became his chavrusa. In 1961, he was appointed moreh hora’ah in the Eidah Hachareidis, and in 1975 he joined its beis din. In 1963, he was appointed Rav of the Zichron Moshe shul, a position he kept for 40 years.
