Shlomo Goren, was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Talmudic scholar. An Orthodox Jew and Religious Zionist, he was considered a foremost rabbinical legal authority on matters of Jewish religious law (halakha). In 1948, Goren founded and served as the first head of the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a position he held until 1968. Subsequently, he served as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv–Jaffa between 1968 and his 1972 election as the Chief Rabbi of Israel; the third Ashkenazi Jew to hold office. After his 1983 retirement from the country's Chief Rabbinate, Goren served as the head of a yeshiva that he established in Jerusalem.
Goren in 1949
Goren (left) saluting at the grave of Israeli soldier Uri Ilan, 1955
Poster signed by prominent rabbis exhorting people to not rely on Goren's halakhic rulings, 1972
Goren visiting wounded Israeli soldiers at a medical facility, 1969
Religious Zionism is an ideology that views Zionism as a fundamental component of Orthodox Judaism. Its adherents are also referred to as Dati Leumi, and in Israel, they are most commonly known by the plural form of the first part of that term: Datiim. The community is sometimes called 'Knitted kippah', the typical head covering worn by male adherents to Religious Zionism.
Religious Zionists celebrating Jerusalem Day in Israel
Religious Zionist pioneers found Kibbutz Ein HaNatziv, 1946
Kvutzat Yavne, 1945
Abraham Isaac Kook, 1924