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35-565: Givat Shaul is named after the Rishon Lezion , Rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar , the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel , and not, as commonly believed, for the biblical King Saul , whose capital was probably located on the hill Gibeah of Saul near Pisgat Ze'ev , on the way to Ramallah . Givat Shaul was established in 1906 on land purchased from the Arab villages of Deir Yassin and Lifta by

70-563: A cottage industry in the Old City , moved to its present location down the road from Angel's in 1965. A new street, Beit Hadfus Street , was constructed to reach the new bakery. This new street was named "Street of the Printing Press" for the many printing establishments also located here. These include two large book publishing houses, Keter Publishing House (established in 1958) and Feldheim Publishers , which established its Israel branch in

105-497: A landing strip . During the Battle for Jerusalem in 1948 , the Haganah flew in supplies, armaments, food, and troops on this runway. After the war, this road became known as Kanfei Nesharim Street . In January 1948, the leaders of Givat Shaul met with the mukhtar of Deir Yassin to work out a non-aggression pact: if armed militia entered Deir Yassin, the villagers would hang out laundry in

140-557: A Texas company to construct a 750-foot pipeline to convey flour directly from the mill to the silo to the bakery. Today this pipeline brings 120 tons of flour to the bakery daily. The invention, initially opposed by the Jerusalem municipality for being above-ground, won the Kaplan Prize for distinction in productivity and efficiency. The bakery's landmark factory store opened in 1984. Berman's Bakery , founded in 1875 by Mrs. Kreshe Berman as

175-548: A certain sequence or place lanterns in a particular location. In return, patrols from Givat Shaul guaranteed safe passage to Deir Yassin residents, in vehicles or on foot, passing through their neighborhood on the way to Jerusalem. Over time, Deir Yassin became a halfway site for Arab forces moving from Ein Karem and Malha to al-Qastal and Kolonia , which overlooked the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. On 9 April 1948, Deir Yassin

210-400: A large refrigerated selection of pastries, and sale of hot and cold drinks. Aproned pastry makers can be seen at work through plastic windows at the back of the shop. In 2001 Berman's Bakery purchased Lechem HaAretz Bakery, producer of specialty and health-food breads, and Vadash Bakery of Ramat HaSharon , producer of breads, rolls and crumb coatings. With these acquisitions, Berman's became

245-686: A small minority of National-Religious Jews. The rabbi of the Zupnik - Ner Yisroel synagogue is Avrohom Yitzchok Ulman , a senior member of the rabbinical high court, or Badatz , of the Edah HaChareidis . Other important rabbis living in Givat Shaul are Rabbi Yehoshua Karlinsky, rabbi of the Beer Avrohom synagogue; Rabbi Tennenbaum, rabbi of the Babad synagogue and Rabbi Shmuel Taussig, Admor of Toldos Shmuel. In

280-494: A society headed by Rabbi Nissim Elyashar, Arieh Leib and Moshe Kopel Kantrovitz. Difficulties in registering the land delayed construction until 1919. The first residents were needy families who were given small plots to grow fresh produce that was marketed in Jerusalem. These families, mainly Yemenite Jews , were joined by others from Meah Shearim and the Old City . The Ashkenazim built the first public building, Beit Knesset HaPerushim . In 1912, an embroidery and sewing workshop

315-625: Is at the end of the two rows of artisan's galleries on the Street of the Craftsmen. As Jewish settlement expanded beyond the Old City walls in the late nineteenth century, the Berman family relocated to the new Mea Shearim neighborhood, where they built a bakery adjoining their house. Yehoshua encouraged his brother Eliyahu to join the business, and they officially named it J. and E. Berman Ltd. From 1917 to 1948,

350-549: Is populated mainly by Haredim, and the main street is closed to traffic on Shabbat and Jewish holidays . Several major synagogues are located here, including the Pressburg Yeshiva and neighborhood synagogue, and the Zupnik - Ner Yisroel synagogue, and the ivy Yeshiva, Ner Moshe, headed by Rabbi Avraham Gurewitz and Rabbi Shalom Shechter. The population consists of a mix of Hasidic , Litvishe and Sephardi / Mizrahi Haredim, and

385-644: Is situated on two parallel streets, Kanfei Nesharim and Beit Hadfus. While Kanfei Nesharim Street has developed into a modern shopping area with many chain stores and stylish office buildings, Beit Hadfus Street remains largely industrial with discount stores and outlets that attract bargain shoppers. In recent years, low-cost wedding halls servicing the religious population of Jerusalem have opened in several office and industrial buildings on Beit Hadfus Street. Some of these are subsidized by major charity organizations to keep expenses down for low-income families. The Armonot Wolf (Wolf Palaces) wedding halls are affiliated with

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420-2187: Is sourced from a verse in Isaiah 41:27. Between 1842 and 1920 the position of Hakham Bashi of the Damascus Bilayet was officially recognised by the Ottoman and British governments. 17th century [ edit ] Moshe ben Yonatan Galante (1665–?) Moshe ibn Habib (1689–1696) 18th century [ edit ] Avraham Ben David Yitzhaki (1709–1729) Eliezer Ben Yaakov Nachum (c. 1730) Nissim Chaim Moshe Mizrachi (1748–1749) Israel Yaakov Algazi (c. 1754) Raphael Shmuel Meyuchas (1756–1771) Chaim Raphael Avraham Ben Asher (1771–1772) Raphael Moshe Bula (1772-1773) Yom Tov Algazi (1773–1802) 19th century [ edit ] Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas (1802–1806) Yaakov Moshe Ayash al-Maghrebi (1806–1817) Yaakov Korach (1817–1818) Raphael Yosef Hazan (1819–1821) Yom Tov Danon (1822–1823) Shlomo Moses Suzin (1824–1836) Yonah Moshe Navon (1836–1841) Yehuda Raphael Navon (1841–1842) Chaim Avraham Gagin (1842–1848) - first Hakham Bashi of Palestine recognized by Ottoman government. Yitzhak Kovo (1848–1854) Chaim Nissim Abulafia (1854–1861) Chaim David Hazan (1861–1869) Avraham Ashkenazi (1869–1880) Raphael Meir Panigel (1880–1892) Yaakov Shaul Elyashar (1893–1906) 20th century [ edit ] Yaakov Meir (1906) Eliyahu Moshe Panigel (1907) Nachman Batito (1909-1911) Moshe Franco (1911–1915) Chaim Moshe Elyashur (1914–1915) Nissin Yehuda Danun (1915–?) Yaakov Meir (1921–1939) Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1939–1954) Yitzhak Nissim (1955–1972) Ovadia Yosef (1973–1983) Mordechai Eliyahu (1983–1993) Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (1993–2003) 21st century [ edit ] Shlomo Amar (2003—2013) Yitzhak Yosef (2013—2024) David Yosef (2024—) See also [ edit ] Land of Israel Gaonate List of Jewish leaders in

455-726: The 1948 Arab-Israeli war . In 1965 it moved to its present location in the Givat Shaul neighborhood. Here it employs over 400 workers and services 2,000 stores, supermarkets and institutions countrywide. In 2007 the company was purchased by the Mishkei Harei Yehuda agricultural cooperative . At that time it reported revenues of ₪ 300 million annually. Berman's Bakery began as a cottage industry established by Kreshe Berman (1829–1933), who, together with her husband Todrus HaLevi Berman (1807–1887) and two small sons, Yehoshua (Joshua) (1861–1939) and Eliyahu (1867–1951), immigrated to

490-557: The British Mandate government was a regular customer of Berman's Bakery. During the 1948 war, the bakery, which lay close to the Jordanian border, was a frequent target of bombing attempts. Despite the Arab siege of Jerusalem and severe flour and gasoline rationing, Berman's Bakery continued to supply Jerusalem residents with fresh bread throughout the war. In 1965 Berman's Bakery moved to its present location on Beit Hadfus Street in

525-555: The Yad Eliezer charity organization, which subsidizes weddings for orphans here through its Adopt-a-Wedding campaign. The Gutnick Halls, funded by Australian philanthropist Joseph Gutnick and managed by Chabad , provide subsidized weddings for 440 needy couples annually through the Colel Chabad charity fund. The Lechaim halls, located into the same industrial complex as Armonot Wolf, are also cheaper than wedding halls in other parts of

560-534: The 1960s. Old City Press has operated here since 1969. Since the late 1980s, aging industrial plants have been replaced by housing projects in Givat Shaul Bet. The population consists of a mix of Haredi and Religious Zionist Jews. The northernmost part of the neighborhood, directly above Highway 1 , is mostly Haredi , while residents of the southern part, bordering Kiryat Moshe, are mostly Modern Orthodox Religious Zionists. The northern part of Givat Shaul

595-965: The Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture Institute for Sephardic Studies Other Philosephardism  [ es ] Sephardization References [ edit ] ^ Dov Noy ; Ellen Frankel; Dan Ben-Amos (2007). Folktales of the Jews . Haifa, Israel: Jewish Publication Society. p. 38. ISBN   978-0-8276-0829-0 . Retrieved 18 October 2011 . ^ "Biography Yom Tov Algazi" . ^ web2_admin (2022-03-09). "Lot 217 | בית המכירות תפארת" . Retrieved 2024-10-18 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link ) Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Sephardi_chief_rabbis_of_the_Land_of_Israel&oldid=1255905606 " Categories : Rishon LeZion (rabbi) Sephardi rabbis Rabbis of

630-483: The Givat Shaul industrial zone, down the street from the Angel's Bakery which had opened there in 1958. A new road had to be paved to reach the new bakery. The nearly 10,000-square-meter factory is fully automated, producing nearly 3,000 loaves of bread per hour and requiring no human input from production through baking through slicing and packaging. Also in 1965, Yitzchak Berman, a great-grandson of Kreshe, began working in

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770-614: The Old City of Jerusalem from Lithuania in 1876. While Todrus, a full-time Torah scholar, studied in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva adjacent to the Hurva Synagogue , Kreshne supported the family (two girls, Rachel and Rivka, were born in Jerusalem) by operating a small grocery store on the Street of the Jews. When their savings ran out, Kreshne began looking for ways to increase business. She began baking honey cakes and peddling them to

805-580: The bakery following his stint in the IDF paratroopers unit. After working in every capacity in the bakery, he became managing director of the company. He appointed his childhood friend, Yehuda Schneidman, as operating manager. Yitzchak's daughters, Teda and Avital, and his son-in-law Gabi Mazurzski, also work in the family business. In 1999 the company opened a retail bread shop and pâtisserie at its factory location. This store displays full lines of packaged and unpackaged breads, rolls, pitas , cakes and pies, plus

840-458: The business. During the pilgrimage off-season, Yehoshua went door-to-door selling his mother's bread to local residents. The business continued to prosper and in 1882 Yehoshua opened the first Jewish store outside the Old City walls, in a line of shops erected outside Jaffa Gate . He transported the bakery goods by horse and mule from the Old City to the store, using Austrian army surplus wagons. As these wagons were emblazoned with an anchor ,

875-1018: The city. Government offices include the Ministry of Environmental Protection , the National Authority of Religious Services, the State Comptroller and Ombudsman, the Israel Securities Authority , the Income Tax Commission, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , and the National Parks Authority. The Israeli branch of Touro College and the Tal Institute , the women's division of the Jerusalem College of Technology , are also located in Givat Shaul. On

910-521: The 💕 (Redirected from Rishon LeZion (title) ) This list of Sephardi chief rabbis of the Land of Israel documents the rabbis who served as the spiritual leader of the Sephardic community in the Land of Israel from the mid-17th century to present. The Hebrew title for the position, Rishon LeZion (literally "First to Zion"), has been used since the beginning of the 17th century, and

945-421: The insignia of an Austrian army unit, people began associating the insignia with the Berman bakery. Berman's eventually incorporated this anchor into the bakery's logo . Yehoshua Berman also built the city's first flour mill in 1886, north of Mishkenot Sha'ananim , which operated until the 1948 Arab-Israeli war turned that area into a no man's land . Two huge millstones still stand at the former site, which

980-580: The northwestern ridge of the neighborhood lies Har HaMenuchot , Jerusalem's largest cemetery. Between the northern section of Givat Shaul and the cemetery is another commercial zone consisting of several large stores and office buildings. The Herzog psychiatric hospital, Egged 's bus maintenance facility, and the main depot for the Jerusalem municipality's sanitation services are also located here. 31°47′21.57″N 35°11′30.73″E  /  31.7893250°N 35.1918694°E  / 31.7893250; 35.1918694 Rishon LeZion (title) From Misplaced Pages,

1015-587: The second-largest after Angel Bakeries . Founded in 1875 by Kreshe Berman as a cottage industry in Jerusalem 's Old City , the family business was the first to open a Jewish store outside the Old City walls and first to build a flour mill in Israel. Berman's Bakery moved to the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem in the late nineteenth century, where it operated as the country's largest through two world wars and

1050-507: The southern part of Givat Shaul, the population predominantly consists of Modern Orthodox Jews, affiliating with Religious Zionism . This section borders Kiryat Moshe and is often also referred to as such. Institutions in this area include the main synagogue of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu , a major center of Sephardic Religious Zionism, as well as the primarily Ashkenazi national-religious flagship Mercaz HaRav yeshiva. The Givat Shaul industrial zone, sometimes referred to as Givat Shaul Bet ,

1085-654: The thousands of Christian pilgrims who came to Jerusalem annually before Christmas and remained there until after Easter . Often she stood at Jaffa Gate or at Lions' Gate , peddling to pilgrims on their way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre . Once a pilgrim asked her if she sold Russian black bread. Kreshe experimented with different formulas until she developed her own dark bread by adding carob paste to locally made grain. Her sales of honey cake and black bread grew so much that her son Yehoshua left yeshiva to help her manage

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1120-609: Was attacked by Irgun and Lehi forces and between 100 and 110 villagers were killed during the fights or massacred afterward. The population that had not fled was expelled. The rumours about this massacre also contributed to the trigger of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight . In 1951, the abandoned buildings were used to house a therapeutic community of 300 patients called the Kfar Shaul Government Work Village for Mental Patients. The majority of patients were Holocaust survivors. On 30 November 2023, it

1155-468: Was home to 500 orphan boys. According to a census conducted in 1931 by the British Mandate authorities , Givat Shaul had a population of 966 inhabitants, in 152 inhabited houses. A long, dirt track separated Givat Shaul from a cluster of Arab villages, including Deir Yassin , with whom the Jews maintained good relations. In late 1946, the Haganah straightened and paved the dirt track in order to use it as

1190-581: Was opened with the help of a Jewish philanthropist, Rabbi Slutzkin. Other industries established in Givat Shaul were the Froumine biscuit factory, a factory for kerosene heaters that manufactured arms for the British army during the British Mandate of Palestine , and a matza factory. In 1927, the Diskin Orphanage moved to Givat Shaul from the Old City. This building, designed by a local architect named Tabachnik,

1225-447: Was the scene of a mass shooting by two Hamas terrorists amid the 2023 Israel–Hamas war . The Palestinian gunmen were shot and killed by security forces and an armed civilian. Three Israelis were killed and six wounded. After 1948, the Givat Shaul industrial zone expanded with factories and warehouses. Angel's Bakery moved to its present location here in 1958. The Angel brothers and co- CEOs Avraham, Ovadia, and Danny, commissioned

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