Zvi Thau
Zvi Yisrael Thau (born 1937) is a Religious Zionist rabbi, a disciple of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, and co-founder and president of Yeshivat Har Hamor in Jerusalem.
Zvi Yehuda
Zvi Yehuda( born Zvi Zaltzman in 1887, died 3 October 1965) was a Zionist activist and later a politician.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
David Samson (rabbi)
David Samson( born 1956) is an Orthodox rabbi and one of the leading English- speaking Torah scholars in the Religious Zionist movement in Israel, and an educational entrepreneur.
Rabbi Samson has written five books, most of which are on the teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook and Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook.
Rabbi Samson was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
His grandfather was Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Samson, who was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore for over 50 years.
After moving to Israel, he studied under the tutelage of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook for twelve years.
He served as a congregational rabbi of Kehillat Dati Leumi synagogue in Har Nof, Jerusalem.
He taught Talmud and Jewish Studies at Yashlatz.
Rabbi David Samson is also the founder of Arutz Sheva English broadcasting and created his own radio talk show from now until midnight.
He appeared on the weekly TV feature magazine" Israeli Salad" on Arutz Sheva broadcast.
In 2003, he founded Atid, a non-profit organization for youth at risk.
He then founded Maale Erev Institutions in 2004, a set of high schools for youth at risk, and Yeshivat Lech Lecha, a mobile high school based in jeeps.
In recent years Rabbi Samson has opened up a number of schools.
In 2008 he started Yerushalayim Torah Academy( Y.T.A), a Yeshiva High School for English speakers located in Jerusalem.
It is designed especially for the immigrant community and offers a new and innovative program that has become the model for the Ministry of Education.
Then he opened YTA for girls, a similar program for girls located in Ramot Jerusalem.
In September 2011, he founded a third yeshiva high school for English speakers, this one located in Kfar Saba.
In 2014, he founded the Lone Star Language Academy, a network of language schools in Texas.
He is presently the founder and dean of Atid institutions in Israel, and the founder and dean of the Lone Star Language Academy in Texas.
Avraham Shapira
Avraham Shapira( 20 May 1914, Jerusalem – 27 September 2007) was a prominent rabbi in the Religious Zionist world.
Shapira had been the head of the Rabbinical court of Jerusalem, and both a member and the head of the Supreme Rabbinic Court.
He served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993.
Shapira was the rosh yeshiva of Mercaz haRav in Jerusalem, a position he held since Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook died in 1982.
Zephaniah Drori
Rabbi Zephaniah Drori( born March 13, 1937)( 1st of Nissan, 5697) is the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Shmona, Israel and the rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva.
He also heads the Aguda LeHitnadvut( a Sherut Leumi contracting organization), and serves as Av Beit Din of the northern conversion beit din.
Drori is considered by many to be a leading scholar of the Religious Zionist camp.
He first studied at the Bnei Akiva Kfar HaRoeh high school yeshiva when Rabbi Moshe- Zvi Neria served as rosh yeshiva.
Later, he helped establish Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh, and then studied at Mercaz haRav yeshiva.
There he became an important student of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook.
Drori helped found the adjacent Yeshivat Yerushalayim L’Tzeirim yeshiva high school.
In 1968, with the blessing of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, Drori moved to Israel's northern border city, Kiryat Shmona, and became the chief rabbi.
In 1977, he established the" Kiryat Shmona Hesder Yeshiva".
Zvi Yehuda Kook
Zvi Yehuda Kook (23 April 1891 – 9 March 1982) was an Orthodox rabbi, a prominent leader of Religious Zionism, and Rosh Yeshiva of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva.
He was the son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook,
the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine.
His teachings are partially responsible for the modern religious settlement movement in Judea and Samaria.
Many of his ideological followers in the Religious Zionist movement settled there.
Under the leadership of Kook, with its center in the yeshiva founded by his father, Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav, thousands of Orthodox Jews campaigned actively against territorial compromise, and established numerous settlements throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Many of these settlements were subsequently granted official recognition by Israeli governments, both right and left.
Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook (HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, also known by the acronym (HaRaAYaH); 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935) was an Orthodox rabbi, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine in the Land of Israel, the founder of Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav (The Central Universal Yeshiva), a Jewish thinker, Posek, Kabbalist, and a renowned Talmid Chacham.
He is considered one of the fathers of religious Zionism.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Thomas Scott (diver)
Thomas Scott( 1907- date of death unknown) was an English diver.

Question: When did Zvi Yehuda Kook's father die?
Answer: 1 September 1935