10 Facts About Avigdor Nebenzahl

Avigdor Nebenzahl is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and posek.

Avigdor Nebenzahl is the senior rosh yeshiva at Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh, a faculty member at Yeshivat HaKotel, and rabbi of the Ramban Synagogue.

Avigdor Nebenzahl was born to Yitzhak Nebenzahl, the State Comptroller of Israel from 1948 to 1981, Israel's Ombudsman from 1961 to 1981, and a senior officer in the Bank of Israel and the Israel Postal Bank.

Avigdor Nebenzahl's father, Chaim Zev Finkel, was a mashgiach ruchani of the yeshiva.

Avigdor Nebenzahl's brother-in-law, Aaron Chodosh, was a mashgiach there, and her brother Aryeh Finkel was the rosh yeshiva of its Brachfeld branch until his death on August 10,2016.

Avigdor Nebenzahl was a faculty member of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem before accepting positions at Yeshivat HaKotel and Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh, where he has given weekly lectures.

Avigdor Nebenzahl is the author of essays on the weekly Torah portion.

Avigdor Nebenzahl was Shlomo Zalman Auerbach's study partner for over 40 years.

Joel Landau assisted Avigdor Nebenzahl in publishing one of his first works.

In 2017, Avigdor Nebenzahl penned a letter to Chaim Kanievsky, in which he decried the Jerusalem Municipality for sponsoring interfaith Hanukkah parties.