Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (also called Leizer Yudel Finkel) [1] is a Haredi Jewish rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem,[2][3] which is considered to be the largest yeshiva in Israel with a student body of 6,000 students.

[4] He acceded to the position of rosh yeshiva after his father, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, died suddenly on 8 November 2011.

[5] Finkel was named after his maternal great-grandfather, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, who became rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir yeshiva in Poland in 1917 and re-established the yeshiva in Jerusalem during World War II while the main body of the yeshiva was in exile in the Far East.

His great-great-grandfather was the Mussar movement leader Nosson Tzvi Finkel.

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