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Eliezer Sheffer

Co-Chairman of World Mizrachi Movement
Chairman of World Council of Torah Education

Between 1972-2002, Eliezer Sheffer fulfilled a number of senior executive positions in the executives of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Chairman of the Leadership Development Unit – Dor Hemshech, Head of the Department of Torah Education in the Diaspora and as Head of the Center for Spiritual Services in the Diaspora, he headed the three International Assemblies for Orthodox Leadership.

Some of Mr. Sheffer's current public positions include –

• Chairman of the Executive Board of Ariel Institutions – Torah, Judaism and society in Israel
• Chairman of the Amuta - "Yavneh Olami" – the world organization for students and yeshiva students.
• President of the "Bnei Zion" lodge in Jerusalem, belonging to Bnei Brit in Israel.
• Member of the Vaad of the World Organization of Orthodox Communities and Synagogues in Israel and the Diaspora.
• Member of the executive council of the World Jewish Congress

Eliezer Sheffer was born in Tiberias to a family who had emigrated from Russia to Israel in the Hassidim wave of Aliya – disciples of the Baal Shem Tov in 1778. They rejuvenated the Jewish communities in Tiberias and Meron.

He studied in the Hevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem and Kerem BeYavne Yeshiva. He served in the Israeli Defense Force as a paratrooper, studied psychology and education at Bar Ilan University and worked as an educator and an educational-psychology counselor.

Eliezer Sheffer published several articles in newspapers and in books. His book "Stories of Time and Place" was published five years ago and in the coming year he will publish another book about Jerusalem.

Eliezer Sheffer is married to Esther, father of three children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, lives with his family in Jerusalem.

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