R’ Shmuel Ariel is a longtime talmid chacham, halachic writer and one of the more substantial rabbinic voices in support of the renewed Techeiles. For many years he learned and taught at Yeshivat Otniel, eventually serving there as a Ram and as head of the Halachah Kollel. Since 2018 he has taught at Yeshivat Yerucham.…
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Hillel Fuld will tell you upfront: he comes from a family that sweats. Not metaphorically — actually, physically, chronically. And for most of his adult life, that was reason enough to skip the mitzvah of tzitzit almost entirely. One more layer under his shirt in the Israeli heat wasn’t happening. He’s said as much himself,…
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Rabbi Brendan Stern serves as Assistant Rabbi of Hendon United Synagogue in London. A native of Sydney, Australia, he learned at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel, where he was part of the class of 2006, and later received Yoreh Yoreh semichah from Rav Zalman Nechemya Goldberg zt”l. Rabbi Stern is known for clear, careful Torah…
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His own words: “I began playing football at the age of eight. By my junior year in high school, recruiters from the University of Minnesota, Ohio State, North Carolina State, University of Arizona, and Notre Dame were watching me with apt interest. The legendary Woody Hayes from Ohio State University made the biggest impression on…
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A talmid of Rav Moshe Feinstein and Rav Soloveitchik, a lifelong builder of Torah institutions, and later a Rav strongly identified with Migdal HaTorah in Modiin and with the question of Har HaBayis.
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Joel Guberman wrote in a private text: “I was zoche to give HaRav Druckman zt”l a tallit with techeilet after he was mesader kiddushin of my daughter… [he] received a tallit as a gift. It was tyed Raavad chinuch. His grandson said he wore the tallit on shabbat. When asked his opinion he was quoted…
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Itamar Ben-Gvir did not come into public life through the usual yeshiva-world track, and he did not arrive looking polished. He came in through protest, confrontation, and the nationalist right. Born on May 6, 1976, in Mevaseret Zion, he grew up in a secular Mizrahi family with Iraqi and Kurdish roots. During the years of…
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Rabbi Tzfania (Zephania) Drori has been a proud Techeiles wearer for many years.
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Rabbi Re’em HaCohen doesn’t just teach Torah—he builds frameworks that hold Torah and modern life together in one steady breath. Born in Jerusalem in 1957, he’s spent decades at the heart of Israel’s Religious Zionist world, shaping minds and communities with clarity and conviction. As Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Otniel and Rabbi of the Otniel…
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Born in Brooklyn and raised in Eretz Yisrael from age nine—first in Kedumim, then Ma’ale Adumim and Har Nof—Rabbi Avi Berman carries both an American spark and an Israeli grit into his work. He went through high school at Ohr Etzion’s Hesder Yeshiva in Shilo, served in the IDF, and then stayed on for four years of semicha study…
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