Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook הרב צבי יהודה קוק | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | 23 April 1891 |
| Died | 9 March 1982 (aged 90) Jerusalem, Israel |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Spouse | Chava Leah Hutner |
| Parent(s) | Abraham Isaac and Reiza Rivka Kook |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Mercaz HaRav |
| Began | 1952 |
| Ended | 1982 |
| Buried | Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem |
Zvi Yehuda Kook (Hebrew: צבי יהודה קוק, 23 April 1891 – 9 March 1982) was an ultranationalist[1][2] Orthodox rabbi. He was the son of Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine.[3][4] Both father and son are credited with developing Kookian Zionism, which became the dominant form of Religious Zionism.[5] He was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva.
Kook's fundamentalist teachings were a significant factor in the formation and activities of the modern religious settlement movement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, largely through his influence on the Gush Emunim movement, which was founded by his students.[6] Many of his ideological followers established such settlements, and he has been credited with the dissemination of his father's ideas, helping to form the basis of Religious Zionism.[7]
Kook presided for nearly six decades over the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva (lit. 'The Rabbi's Centre') founded by his father in Jerusalem, which became "the flagship yeshiva of religious Zionism",[8] where hundreds of future militants, opposed to territorial compromises and promoting Israeli settlement of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, received their formative education.[1]
- ^ a b NYT 1982.
- ^ EJ 2007, p. 293.
- ^ Dowty 2001, p. 228.
- ^ Weisburd 2010, p. 22.
- ^ Magid 2019.
- ^ Lustick 1988, p. 29.
- ^ Hoch 1994, pp. 90–118.
- ^ Pedahzur 2012, p. 37.