page_title: Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam
section_title: Kiryat Sanz, Netanya
hierarchical_section_title: Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam / Kiryat Sanz, Netanya
caption_attribution_description: Laniado Hospital, Israel. The Founder at the Corner Stone Laying Ceremony in 1974
context_page_description: Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding Rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty.
  Halberstam became one of the youngest rebbes in Europe, leading thousands of followers in the town of Klausenburg, Romania, before World War II. His wife, eleven children and most of his followers were murdered by the Nazis while he was incarcerated in several concentration camps. After the war, he moved to the United States and later to Israel, rebuilt Jewish communal life in the displaced persons camps of Western Europe, re-established his dynasty in the United States and Israel, founded a Haredi neighborhood in Israel and a Sanz community in the United States, established a hospital in Israel run according to Jewish law, and rebuilt his own family with a second marriage and the birth of seven more children.
context_section_description: The Rebbe's decision to move to the United States was not a permanent one. Throughout his travails in the Holocaust, he always had in mind the goal of settling in Israel. Toward that end, he established the Kiryat Sanz neighborhood in the beachside city of Netanya in 1958. In so doing, he was the first Rebbe to establish a Haredi neighborhood in an Israeli development town. Over the next few years, he raised money for the establishment of key neighborhood institutions, including girls' and boys' schools and yeshivas, an orphanage, and an old-age home.
  The Rebbe moved permanently to Israel in 1960, settling in Netanya and directing both the community there and in Williamsburg. He also founded battei medrash and schools in other cities in Israel, and established the Kiryat Sanz neighborhood of Jerusalem as well.
  In 1968 he founded another Sanz community in Union City, New Jersey, and afterwards divided his time between that community and his residence in Netanya.
caption: View of the dais at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for Laniado Hospital in 1974. Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam is seen at center left; his son, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam (with glasses) is seated to his left.
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