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SEVEN DECADES OF TORAH LEADERSHIP: Rav Moshe Mordechai Hadaya Zt”l, Eilat’s Longest-Serving Chief Rabbi, Passes Away at 91

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The Torah world is mourning the petirah of Rav Moshe Mordechai Hadaya zt”l, the longtime Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Eilat and its surrounding district, who was niftar on Shabbos at the age of 91, after approximately seven decades devoted to strengthening Yiddishkeit in Israel’s southernmost city. Rav Hadaya, who was regarded as the senior municipal rabbi in Israel in terms of years of service, assumed his position when Eilat was still a remote and…
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The deceased served for about sixty years as the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of the city of Eilat and the district, and died at the age of 91. The funeral procession left tonight from the "Pahad Yitzhak" synagogue in Beit Vegan and will continue tomorrow to Jerusalem. The post Mourning in the world of the rabbinate: The elder of the rabbis of the cities, the great Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Hadaya, zt"l, has passed away appeared first on JDN.

A great and fallen minister in Israel, blessed be the Judge of Truth: With the end of Shabbat, the painful news of the passing of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Hadaya zt"l, rabbi of the city of Eilat, arrived | The late rabbi zt"l brought blossom to the spiritual wilderness in the city for decades out of a special holy mission | Lines to his burning image (Dayan Ha'amat)

Eilat's Chief Rabbi for 70 years has died at the age of 91. A short three-week mission became a life's work that shaped the image of the southern city.

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סרוגים broke the news on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
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