Yisrael Friedman (Pashkaner Rebbe)
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| Born | 1923 (age 100–101) Buhuși |
| Wife | Tziporah |
| Children | Hoshea Friedman, several others |
Yisrael Friedman is known as the Pashkaner Rebbe[1] (after the city of Pașcani where his grandfather served as Rebbe). He is a former lecturer at the Tel Aviv University and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the rosh yeshiva of a hesder yeshiva in Netivot.
Friedman is a sixth-generation descendant of Rebbe Yisrael of Rizhin. He resides in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. He is married to Rebbetzin Tziporah, a daughter of the Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz. One of his sons is Hoshea Friedman, a brigadier general in the IDF. The Rebbe’s grandsons study in various hesder yeshivos.[1]
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