Schach, Rabbi Eliezer Menachem
- Schach, Rabbi Eliezer Menachem
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▪ 2002
Lithuanian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish scholar and political leader (b. 1896?, Wabolnick [now Vabalninkas], Lithuania, Russian Empire—d. Nov. 2, 2001, Tel Aviv, Israel), as the spiritual leader of Israel's non-Zionist ultra-Orthodox political parties—Agudat Yisrael, Shas, and Degel Hatorah—wielded great influence on Israeli government policies. In 1940 Schach emigrated from Lithuania to British Palestine, where he was a revered scholar at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv. In 1984 he sided with Sephardic Jews who broke away from the predominantly Ashkenazic Agudat Yisrael to form Shas. Four years later he founded Degel Hatorah, which in 1992 joined with Agudat Yisrael in a new political bloc, United Torah Judaism. Schach preached moderation in Arab-Israeli relations, opposed Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, and supported trading land for peace, but his fierce contempt for the liberal secularism of the Labor Party led him to support right-wing governments.
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