Ovadia Hedaya Explained

Ovadia Hedaya
Birth Date:	24 December 1889
Birth Place:	Allepo, Syria
Language:	Hebrew
Citizenship:	Israeli
Awards:	Israel Prize (1968)

Ovadia Hedaya (Hebrew: {{Script/Hebrew|עובדיה הדאיה, 24 December 1889 – 8 February 1969) was a leading Israeli rabbi.

Biography

Rabbi Hadaya was born in 1889 in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, to rabbi Shalom Hedaya.^[1] In 1945, he succeeded his father as head of Yeshivat HaMekubalim, the center of kabbalistic study in Jerusalem.

Awards and honours

• In 1968, Rabbi Hedaya was awarded the Israel Prize, in Rabbinical literature.^[2]

Published works

• Yaskil Avdi : (Eight volumes)

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

Notes and References

1. Web site: ‏⁨הד המזרח⁩ | עמוד 10 | 29 דצמבר 1944 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית. 8 December 2022.
2. Web site: Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1968 (in Hebrew).