1. Hans Thau was born in Vienna to Galician Jews parents.
11 Facts About Zvi Thau
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Zvi Thau's father, Avraham Adolph Thau, was a banker, and his mother, Judith Yutah Meisels, was a chemist.
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Zvi Thau managed to disguise us as measles patients and hung a sign on the door: 'Beware.
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Zvi Thau related that Rabbi Amital introduced him into the world of Torah and the teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.
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Zvi Thau was a pioneer of Torah study for women in the Orthodox community.
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At the age of 71, Zvi Thau married Batya Cohen, founder and clinical director of an outpatient clinic treating modern Orthodox and Haredi people with eating disorders.
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Zvi Thau's son Rabbi Nehemiah is a lecturer in the yeshiva in Mitzpe Ramon.
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Zvi Thau has two older sisters: Dr Gerda Elata-Alster, a former professor of Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University; and Dr Eveline Goodman-Zvi Thau, a professor of Jewish religious and intellectual history, who served one year as a liberal rabbi in Vienna.
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Zvi Thau is considered by many to be the leading disciple of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, the dean of Mercaz HaRav.
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Zvi Thau is the ideological leader of the Noam party, a far-right religious Zionist party in Israel whose key issue is the promotion of heteronormative, anti-LGBTQ, and traditionalist policy.
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In 2022, a 38-year-old woman said that Zvi Thau had repeatedly assaulted her for many years, beginning when she was a minor.