Elyakim Schlesinger

Elyakim Schlesinger (Yiddish: אליקים שלעזינגער), born 1921, is a rabbi[1][2] and rosh yeshiva in London.

[3] He is an international authority[1] and serves as the President,[2] Chairman,[1] and Head of the Rabbinical Board[2] of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe.

[1][2] He is a grandson of Moreinu Yaakov Rosenheim, one of the founders of World Agudath Israel.

Schlesinger was born in Vienna in September 1921 and emigrated to Israel with his family in the late 1930s.

He was very close to Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish), and the Brisker Rav.