Eliezer Igra

Igra was a Religious Zionist candidate for Chief Rabbi of Israel in the 2013 nominations for that position.

[3] Eliezer Igra began learning at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh during which time the Yom Kippur War and he took part in the fighting.

After the war, Igra was placed in the battalion commanded by Yonatan Netanyahu with whom he studied Torah.

In 1989, at the young age of 33, he was nominated by the Chief Rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira to be a dayan at the Beersheba Beit Din.

[1] Igra is married to Ruhama (wedded by Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman) and has nine children.