Yeshayahu Hadari

Rav Chaim Yeshayahu Hadari was born in 1933 in Tel Aviv Palestine and was the first ever Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Hakotel, a position he held for over thirty years.

He was born in Tel Aviv and went school in "Bilu" and went on to learn ישיבה היישוב החדש שבעיר and in the Chevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

In 1955, he was critically wounded by a grenade blast. After waking from an extended coma the name חיים (life) was added to his name to signify his survival of a near death experience.

In March 1957 he married Naiomi Rakover, the daughter of Chaim Rakover and the granddaughter of Simcha Mandelbaum.

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