Jacob Lionel Garstein Kopelowitz[2] JP MBE (9 December 1926 – 27 July 2019) was a British Jewish community leader and former President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
Kopelowitz was born in Newcastle upon Tyne but grew up in nearby Durham.
[3] He was educated at Clifton College before studying at the Trinity College at the University of Cambridge while training as a doctor at University College Hospital.
[2][4] He served in the Royal Air Force (1952–1953) before becoming a GP.
[2] He was President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and President of the National Council for Soviet Jewry from 1985–1991, while also pursuing an individual career as a GP and a key member of the British Medical Association.