Avraham Wolfensohn (1783–1855) was a Jewish rabbi, Talmudic judge and leader of the Ashkenazi community in Safed, Ottoman Galilee in the mid-19th century.
Avraham Wolfensohn was born in Shklov, about 300 kilometers southeast of Vilnius in Lithuania, where he became a disciple of the Vilna Gaon Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman.
Influenced by the Vilna Gaon's vision, Avraham Wolfensohn founded an organization called Chazon Tzion ("Prophecy/Vision [of] Zion"), whose main principles included the ingathering of the Jewish exile.
Included in the groups were members of the Wolfensohn, Ze'ev, Rivlin, Zeitlin and Bassan families— many of the descendants of these disciples became leading figures in modern Israeli society.
Rabbi Avraham Wolfensohn became the first judge of the Perushim in Safed[1] and was instrumental in ending the friction between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities in the region.