Yisroel Hager | |
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Title | Sixth Vizhnitzer Rebbe |
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Born | Tel Aviv, Israel | April 19, 1945
Religion | Judaism |
Spouse | Sarah Chana Chaya Twersky |
Children | Malka Henia Twersky, Miriam Hager, Rechel Dvorah Meisles, Chaim Meir Hager, Yitzchok Shaye Hager, Tzipporah Bracha Teitelbaum, Yakov Mordechai Hager, Sheindel Hager |
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Jewish leader | |
Predecessor | Moshe Yehoshua Hager |
Began | 2012 |
Ended | present |
Dynasty | Vizhnitz |
Yisroel Hager (born April 19, 1945), is one of the two Grand Rabbis of Vizhnitz in Bnei Brak and a member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of great Torah Sages) of Agudat Israel.
Hager was born in Tel Aviv to his father, Moshe Yehoshua Hager, who preceded him as Grand Rabbi of Vizhnitz followers in Bnei Brak, and to his mother, Leah Esther. On June 2, 1963, at the age of 18, he married Sarah Chaya Chana Twersky, the daughter of Meshulom Zishe Twersky, previous Grand Rabbi of Chernobyl in Bnei Brak. Shortly after his marriage, he was appointed by his grandfather Grand Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager (1887-1972), to serve as a rabbi of the Vizhnitz synagogue and a few years later, in 1972 (after his grandfather died and his father took over the leadership of the Vizhnitz Chassidim), he served as the Chief Rabbi of the Kiryas Vizhnitz neighborhood in Bnei Brak.
In 1984, his father's orders, he was removed from his position as a Chief Rabbi and was exiled from the Vizhnitz neighborhood as well. In 1990, his father appointed his younger brother, Menachem Mendel Hager, as a Chief Rabbi of Kiryas Vizhnitz . [1] After nearly 18 years of boycott, and after Hager was involved in a car accident, suffered from severe injuries and was hospitalized in a critical condition, his father agreed to visit him, and he reconciled with his father and resumed his position as a Chief Rabbi and the main heir apparent of his father's followers. Upon his father's death in March 2012, although both he and his brother succeeded him as Rebbe, the lion's share of his father's followers chose him.
Rabbi Yisroel and Rebbetzin Sarah Chaya Chana have eight children - three sons and five daughters:
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