Kaduri, Yitzhak

Kaduri, Yitzhak
▪ 2007

      Israeli rabbi (b. probably 1898, Ottoman Empire [now Iraq]—d. Jan. 28, 2006, Jerusalem, Israel), was a Kabbalist rabbi and a scholar of Jewish mysticism who rose from obscurity to become a significant force in Israeli politics in the 1990s. Kaduri settled in Palestine in the early 1920s. By the 1990s he had become a venerated religious leader in Israel, particularly among ultra-Orthodox and North African Jews, many of whom formed the core of the Shas political party. Kaduri's public endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu was considered crucial to the Likud leader's 1996 election as prime minister. In 2000 Kaduri professed that he had seen a vision in which heaven favoured the then little-known Moshe Katzav for president over former prime minister Shimon Peres. President Katzav spoke a eulogy at Kaduri's funeral, which drew a crowd of some 200,000 mourners.

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