Avraham Shapira

Avraham Shapira (Hebrew: אברהם אלקנה כהנא שפירא; c. 1910,[1][2][3][4] Jerusalem – 27 September 2007) was a prominent rabbi in the Religious Zionist world.

Shapira was the rosh yeshiva of Mercaz haRav in Jerusalem, a position he held since Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook died in 1982.

After his marriage, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook invited him to join Mercaz HaRav yeshiva.

In 1956, he was appointed as a member of the Jerusalem religious court by Chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog.

[10] During the Oslo Accords, Shapira ruled that handing over territories violates Jewish law.

Rabbi Shapira together with Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu at Yom Yerushalayim celebration at Mercaz HaRav