Yosef Rivlin
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| Position | Central Committee of Knesseth Israel |
| Organisation | Director |
| Began | 1863 |
| Ended | 1897 |
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| Birth name | Yosef Yitzhak Rivlin |
| Born | 1838 Jerusalem |
| Died | 5 September 1897 (aged 58–59) Jerusalem |
| Yahrtzeit | 27 Elul 5657 |
| Father | Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Rivlin |
| Mother | Shifra |
| Spouse | Sara Tzipa Miriam Fizetzer Minna Brill Levi |
| Children | 8 |
| Alma mater | Etz Chaim kollel |
Yosef Yitzhak "Yoshya" Rivlin (Hebrew: יוסף יצחק "יושעה" ריבלין, 1838 – 5 September 1897) was an Orthodox Jewish scholar, writer, and community leader in the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem. Scion of a family of Perushim, disciples of the Vilna Gaon who immigrated to Israel in the early 19th century, Rivlin spearheaded the establishment of the first Jewish neighborhoods outside the Old City walls. He helped found a total of 13 neighborhoods, beginning with Nahalat Shiv'a and Mea Shearim. His activities earned him the nickname Shtetlmacher ("Town-Maker"). He directed the Central Committee of Knesseth Israel, the supreme council of the Ashkenazi community in the Old Yishuv, for over 30 years.
Yosef Yitzhak Rivlin was born in Jerusalem in 1838, the scion of a distinguished family of Perushim descending from the students of the Vilna Gaon. His paternal ancestors hailed from Shklov, including his father, Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Rivlin, a Talmud Torah principal in Jerusalem; his grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Rivlin, a Rosh Kollel in Reisin and Vilna who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1841 and served as maggid and leader of the Perushim community; and his great-grandfather, Rabbi Hillel Rivlin, a student of the Vilna Gaon who made aliyah with the Perushim in 1809 and was the first head of the Ashkenazi Perushim rabbinical court in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Shifra.
Rivlin absorbed the ideological vision of his paternal ancestors, preached by the Vilna Gaon, that by strengthening the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel they could hasten the onset of the messianic redemption. At the time, the Jewish population of Jerusalem was confined to the Old City, where they were prey to poverty, overcrowding, lack of sanitation, and heavy taxes imposed by the Ottoman government. Rivlin developed a vision of expanding the Jewish settlement into neighborhoods outside the walls of Jerusalem, although that prospect carried with it exposure to attackers and wild animals that roamed beyond the protective walls of the Old City.
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