Haim Drukman
| Haim Drukman | |
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| Date of birth | 15 November 1932 |
| Place of birth | Kuty, Poland |
| Year of aliyah | 1944 |
| Knessets | 9, 10, 11, 15 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1977–1983 | National Religious Party |
| 1983–1984 | Independent |
| 1984–1986 | Morasha |
| 1986–1988 | National Religious Party |
| 1999–2003 | National Religious Party |
Haim Meir Drukman (Hebrew: חיים דרוקמן), born 15 November 1932) is an Israeli Orthodox Rabbi and former politician. Today, he serves as Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Etzion Yeshiva, the head of the Bnei Akiva Youth Movement and Center for Bnei Akiva Yeshivot.
Born in Kuty in Poland (today in Ukraine), Drukman made aliyah to Mandate Palestine in 1944 after being saved from the Holocaust. He studied in the Aliyah Institute in Petah Tikva, continuing in the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh. He then transferred to the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he became a student of Zvi Yehuda Kook. He also served in the Israel Defense Forces, in the Bnei Akiva gar'in in the Nahal. In 1952, he became a member of Bnei Akiva's National Directorate, and from 1955 until 1956, he served as an emissary of the organisation to the United States.
In 1964, he founded the Ohr Etzion B'nei Akiva Yeshiva Highschool, where he remains Rosh Yeshiva. In 1977, he established the Ohr Etzion Yeshiva, which for many years was the largest Hesder Yeshiva in the country, and in 1995, he founded the Ohr MeOfir academy for highschool graduates of the Ethiopian community. Since 1996, he has also been the head of the Center for Bnei Akiva Yeshivot and ulpanot in Israel.
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