Mordechai Piron

Mordechai Piron (Hebrew: מרדכי פירון; born Egon Pisk; 28 December 1921 – 28 May 2014) was the second chief military rabbi in the history of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), after his predecessor, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, created the position in 1948.

[2] He was an advocate of interfaith dialogue among world religions, chaired The Israel Jewish Council for Interreligious Relations (IJCIR),[3] and sat on the board of world religious leaders for The Elijah Interfaith Institute.

[4] Born in Vienna, Austria,[5][6] Piron was the only child of Viennese religious Jewish parents of Eastern European origins.

He left Vienna for Palestine on 28 October 1938 with the Youth Aliyah and joined its agricultural school Mikveh Yisrael.

[5] Piron served in the IDF since 1948, becoming second-in-command to chief military rabbi Shlomo Goren and succeeding him in 1969.