Rabbi Eliyahu Shaar Yashuv Cohen

Israel's 1st Chief Rabbi:

Ki Teitzei: Drafting Yeshiva students

My father, the Rav HaNazir, and Rav Tzvi Yehudah were of the opinion that everyone is obligated to go out and fight. This was a milhemet mitzvah, a compulsory war, in which all are expected to participate.

Rabbi Shaar Yashuv Cohen laid to rest

Live Hebrew feed of funeral for late Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Rabbi Eliyahu Shaar Yashuv Cohen.

'A great scholar and a warrior'

Prime Minister eulogized late Chief Rabbi of Haifa as 'great scholar who strove for the unity of the Jewish people and defended Jerusalem'.