What is Yisrael Rosen?
[[File:Rav Israel Rozen.jpg|thumb|Yisrael Rosen]] '''Yisrael Rosen''' ({{lang-he|ישראל רוזן}}) (May 1941 &ndash; November 2, 2017) was an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Israelis|Israeli]] [[rabbi]]. He founded the office for conversion to [[Judaism]] in the [[Chief Rabbinate of Israel]] and he was a judge there.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5004816,00.html |title=Rabbi leaves Bayit Yehudi over chairman's lesbian aide |last=Karni |first=Yuval |date=2017-08-19 |website=ynetnews.com |access-date=2017-08-20}}</ref> He was born in [[Tel Aviv]]. Rosen was the director of the [[Zomet Institute]] for the interface of [[Halakha]] and [[technology]] and also the editor-in-chief of the Zomet annual journal ''[[Techumin]]''. He edited a weekly newsletter called ''[[Shabbat B'Shabbato]]''. Rosen died on November 2, 2017 in [[Alon Shevut]], a [[West Bank|West Bank settlement]], of [[pancreatic cancer]] at the age of 76.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/237539 |title=Rabbi Yisrael Rosen passes away |last=Baruch |first=Uzi |date=2017-11-02 |website=israelnationalnews.com |access-date=2017-11-02}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosen, Yisrael}} [[Category:1941 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Chief Rabbinate of Israel]] [[Category:Israeli journalists]] [[Category:Israeli judges]] [[Category:Rabbis from Tel Aviv]] [[Category:Writers from Tel Aviv]] [[Category:Jewish judges]] {{bio-stub}}