Zephaniah Drori

Rabbi Zephaniah Drori (Hebrew: צפניה דרורי; born March 13, 1937) (2nd of Nissan, 5697) was the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Shmona, Israel and the rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva.

Drori is considered by many to be a leading scholar of the Religious Zionist camp.

Later, he helped establish Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, and then studied at Mercaz haRav yeshiva.

Drori helped found the adjacent Yeshivat Yerushalayim L’Tzeirim yeshiva high school.

[1] Hegyon Libi Lefanecha (2014) - a commentary on Orot HaTorah by Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook