About Amram Zaks
Lived 1926 – 2012 (aged 86). Amram Zaks was an Israeli rabbi.
Rabbi Amram Yitzchak Zaks (; 1926—2012) served as the rosh yeshiva of the Slabodka yeshiva of Bnei Brak, Israel alongside Rabbis Dov Landau and Moshe Hillel Hirsch.
Biography
Rabbi Zaks was born on October 30, 1926, in Jerusalem to Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Zalman and Esther Leah Zaks. His mother was the daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Friedman and the sister of Rabbi Mendel Friedman, son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
Rabbi Zaks died on December 30, 2012. Tens of thousands attended his funeral, where he was eulogized by Rabbis Landau and Hirsch of the Slabodka yeshiva as well as by the Rebbe of Sanz, by Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky, by Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein (a student of Rabbi Amram), and by Rabbi Amram's son, Rabbi Simchah Shmuel Zaks.
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Amram Zaks was born on 30 October 1926 in Jerusalem.
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Amram Zaks died on 3 December 2012 in Bnei Brak.
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Amram Zaks was a rabbi.
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