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Leaders in Biblical Times
Leaders in the Talmudic Period
Leaders in the Diaspora
Leaders in the History of the State of Israel

A I B I C I D I E I F I G I H I I I J I K I L I M I N I O I P I Q I R I S I T I U I V I W I X I Y I Z

Leaders in Biblical Times (TANAKH) (top)

• Aaron
• Abraham
• Aharon
• Amos
• Avraham
• Chaggai
• Chavakuk
• Daniel
• Elijah the Prophet (ca. 870 B.C.E. - )
• Elisha HaNavi (ca. 850 B.C.E. – ca. 770 B.C.E.)
• Eliyahu HaNavi (ca. 870 B.C.E. - )
• Esther
• Ezra HaSofer
• Isaac
• Hoshea
• Jacob
• Leah
• Malachi
• Michah
• Miriam
• Mordechai
• Moses
• Moshe
• Nachum
• Ovadiah
• Rachel
• Rivkah
• Ruth
• Sarah
• Shaul
• Shlomo HaMelech
• Shmuel
• Tzefaniah
• Yaakov
• Yechezkel
• Yehonatan
• Yehoshua
• Yeshayahu
• Yirmiyahu
• Yitzchak
• Yoel
• Yonah
• Yosef
• Zechariah

Leaders in the Talmudic Period (top)

• Akiva (d.136 CE)
• Bar Kochba
• Bar Kosiba
• bar Nappacha, Yochanan (ca. 200 C.E. – ca. 279 C.E.)
• ben Lakish, Shimon (ca. 200 C.E. – ca. 275 C.E.)
• ben Uziel, Yonatan (ca. 450 B.C.E.)
• Hillel
• Onkelos the Convert (ca. 35 C.E. – ca. 120 C.E.)
• Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (flourished 135 C.E. – 170 C.E.)
• Rabbeinu Tam
• Reish Lakish (ca. 200 C.E. – ca. 275 C.E.)
• Shammai
• Yehudah HaNasi (135 C.E. – 219 C.E.)
• Yochanan ben Zakkai

Leaders in the Diaspora (top)

• Abrabanel, Don Yitzchak (1437-1508)
• Albo, Yosef (15th Century)
• Al-fasi - Rabbi Yitzchak Al-fasi - RIF (1013-1103)
• Arama, Yitzchak (1420-1494)
• The "Ari" (1534-1572)
• Asevilli - Rabbi Yom Tov ibn Asevilli - RITVA (2nd Half 13th cent. - 1st Half 14th cent.)
• Azikri, Elazari (1533-1600)
• Azulai, Abraham (1570-1643)
• Azulai, Chaim Yosef David - Chida (1724-1806)
• Ba'al Shem Tov (1700-1760)
• Bacharach, Yair Chaim (1638-1702)
• Bachaya Ibn Pakuda (Eleventh Century)
• Bais HaLevi - Yoseph Ber Soloveitchik (1820-1892)
• Beit Shmuel
• Belkin, Dr. Samuel (1911-1976)
• Berlin, Naftali Tzvi Yehudah - The Netziv (1817-1893)
• Bloch, Yosef Yehudah Leib (1860-1930)
• Brozofsky, Shalom Noach
• Chaim of Volozhin (1749-1821)
• Chasam Sofer - Moshe Sofer (1762-1838)
• Chazon Ish - Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz (1878-1953)
• Chida - Chaim Yosef David Azulai (1724-1806)
• Chiddushei HaRim - Yitzchak Meir Rothenberg Alter (1799-1866)
• The "Chinuch" (13th Century)
• Chofetz Chaim - Israel Meir Kagan (1838-1933)
• Cordovero, Moshe - The Ark of the Torah (1522-1570)
• Dov Baer (1773-1827)
• Dubnow Maggid (1741-1804)
• Edels, Shmuel Eliezer - MaHarSha (1555 - 1631)
• Epstein, Baruch HaLevi (1860-1941)
• Eybeshitz, Yonasan (1690-1764)
• Feinstein, Moshe (1895-1986)
• Figo, Azariah (1579-1647)
• Gaon of Vilna (1720-1797)
• Ginzberg, Judah Leib (1885-1946)
• Goren, Shlomo (1917-1994)
• Hai Gaon
• Heller, Yom Tov Lippmann - “Tosafos Yom Tov” - (1579-1654)
• Henkin, Yosef Eliyahu (1880-1973)
• Hirsch, Samson Rafael (1808-1888)
• Horowitz, Isaiah ben Avraham Ha-Levi - The Shlah (1565-1630)
• Hurwitz, Yosef Yosel (1849-1919)
• Hutner, Yitzchak (1906-1980)
• Ibn Ezra, Avraham (1089-1167)
• Isserles, Moshe (1530-1572)
• Kagan, Israel Meir - The Chofetz Chaim (1838-1933)
• Kanievsky, Yaakov Yisrael - The Steipler (1899-1985)
• Kaplan, Aryeh (1934 - 1983)
• Karelitz, Avrohom Yeshaya - Chazon Ish (1878-1953)
• Karo, Josef (1488-1575)
• Kimchi - Rabbi David Kimchi - RADAK (1160-1235)
• Kook, Abraham Isaac HaCohen (1865-1935)
• Kotler, Aharon (1895-1963)
• Lapian, Eliyahu (1876-1976)
• Leibowitz, Nechama (1905-1997)
• Leibush, Meir - The Malbim (1809-1879)
• Leiner, Yaacov (Radzyn) (1828-1878)
• Leow, Judah - Maharal of Prague (1525-1609)
• Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740-1810)
• Levinstein, Yechezkel (1884-1974)
• Levovitz, Yeruchem (1875-1936)
• Luria, Solomon (1510-1574)
• Luria, Yitzchak (1534-1572)
• Luzzatto, Moshe Chaim (1707-1746)
• Maharal of Prague - Judah Leow (1525-1609)
• MaHarSha - Shmuel Eliezer Edels (1555-1631)
• Malbim, Meir Leibush (1809-1879)
• Margolioth, Ephraim Zalman (1762-1828)
• Mechaber
• Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (1843-1926)
• Menachem ben Solomon Meiri (1249-1316)
• Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787-1859)
• Moshe Ben Nachman (1194-1270)
• Moshe Leib of Sosov (1745-1807)
• Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810)
• Naftali of Ropshitz (1760 - 1827)
• Netziv - Naftali Tzvi Yehudah Berlin (1817-1893)
• Ozhorover Rebbe (1890-1971)
• Papo, Eliezer - Pele Yoetz (1785-1826)
• Rabbeinu Gershom (960 – 1040)
• RADAK - Rabbi David Kimchi (1160-1235)
• RAMA (1530-1572)
• RAMBA"M (1135-1204)
• RAMBA"N (1194-1270)
• RA"N (1320-1380)
• Rashba - Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet (1235-1310)
• RASH"I (1040-1105)
• Reischer, Jacob Back - The Shevus Yaakov (1670-1733)
• Reishis Chochma - Eliyahu de Vidas (1518-1592)
• Revel, Dr. Bernard (1885-1940)
• RIF - Rabbi Yitzchak Al-fasi (1013-1103)
• RITVA - Rabbi Yom Tov ibn Asevilli (2nd Half 13th cent. - 1st Half 14th cent.)
• The “Rosh” - Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel (1250-1328)
• Rothenberg Alter, Yitzchak Meir - The Chiddushei HaRim (1799-1866)
• Saadiah Gaon (c. 1000)
• Salanter, Yisrael (1810-1883)
• Satmar Rav (1887-1979)
• Schneerson, Menachem Mendel (1902 -1994)
• Sfas Emes - Rebbe Yehudah Leib Alter (1847-1905)
• Shapira, Kalonymous Kalman (1889-1943)
• Shapiro, Zvi Elimelech of Dinov (1783-1841)
• Shlah - Isaiah ben Avraham Ha-Levi Horowitz (1565-1630)
• Shneur Zalman (1745-1813)
• Siftei Kohen (1621-1662)
• Sofer, Abraham Samuel Benjamin (1815-1871)
• Sofer, Moshe - The Chasam Sofer (1762-1838)
• Soloveitchik, Aharon (1917-2001)
• Soloveitchik, Joseph Ber (1903-1993)
• Soloveitchik, Yoseph Ber - The Bais HaLevi (1820-1892)
• Sorotzkin, Zalman (1881-1966)
• Steipler - Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899-1985)
• Teitelbaum, Yoel - The Satmarer Rebbe (1887 – 1979)
• Tosafos Yom Tov - Rabbi Yom Tov Lippmann Heller (1579-1654)
• Tzadok HaKohein of Lublin (1823-1900)
• de Vidas, Eliyahu - Reishis Chochma (1518-1592)
• Vilna Gaon (1720-1797)
• Vital, Chaim (1543-1620)
• Wasserman, Elchanan (1875-1941)
• Weinberg, Yechiel Yaakov (1885-1966)
• Weissmandel, Michoel Dov (d.1957)
• Yaacov Yosef of Polnoye (died 1782)
• Yaakov Ibn Chaviv (died 1516)
• Yavetz, Yosef - The Chasid or The Darshan (died 1507)
• Yehudah HaChassid (1150-1217)
• Yehudah HaLevi (1075 C.E. – 1141 C.E.)
• Yisraeli, Shaul (1910-1995)

Leaders in the History of the State of Israel (top)

• Begin, Menachem (1913-1992)
• ben Gurion, David (1886-1973)
• ben-Yehuda, Eliezer (1858-1922)
• Eban, Abba (1915-2002)
• Herzl, Theodor (1860-1904)
• Jabotinsky, Vladimir (1880-1940)
• Meier, Golda (1898-1978)
• Montefiore, Sir Moses (1784-1885)
• Senesh, Hannah (1921-1944)
• Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952)

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