David Avraham Spector

David Avraham Spektor, also spelled Schpektor (9 Av 5715 – 12 Tishrei 5774) (Hebrew: דוד אברהם ספקטור; 9 August 1955 – 16 September 2013) was a Dutch–born Israeli rabbi.

[1] He was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and emigrated to Israel in 1973, after the Yom Kippur war.

Spektor studied at several yeshivas for ten years, primarily at Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav and the Meretz Kollel.

Spektor positions included being an army chaplain with the rank of lieutenant in artillery, a rabbi at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, rabbi of the Nokdim community in Gush Etzion, and a lecturer in Michlelet Emunah college for women in Jerusalem.

In 1998 Spektor was appointed the Ashkenazic rabbi of the Givat Sharett neighborhood of Beit Shemesh.