Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel

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chief rabbinate office religious leadership position

The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel is one of the two highest-ranking rabbinic authorities in the country, serving as the spiritual leader and halachic authority for Israel’s Ashkenazi Jewish community.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel canonical	1
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	chief rabbinate office ⓘ religious leadership position ⓘ
advisesOn	Jewish personal status issues in Israel ⓘ conversion to Judaism in Israel ⓘ kashrut standards in Israel ⓘ marriage and divorce for Jews in Israel ⓘ
appointedBy	Israeli Chief Rabbinate ⓘ surface form: Chief Rabbinate Council of Israel Israeli institutions ⓘ surface form: State institutions of Israel
associatedWith	Israeli Chief Rabbinate ⓘ surface form: Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council Rabbinic courts ⓘ surface form: Rabbinical courts of Israel
authorityScope	primarily Orthodox Jewish law ⓘ
coexistsWith	Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel ⓘ
collaboratesWith	Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel on national religious policy ⓘ
country	Israel ⓘ surface form: State of Israel
denomination	Ashkenazi Judaism ⓘ Orthodox Judaism ⓘ
establishedIn	1948 ⓘ
firstHolder	Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog ⓘ
influences	public policy on Jewish religious matters in Israel ⓘ
jurisdiction	Ashkenazi Jewish community in Israel ⓘ Israel ⓘ surface form: State of Israel
languageOfOffice	Hebrew ⓘ
legalStatus	state-recognized religious office in Israel ⓘ
notableHolder	Avraham Shapira ⓘ David Lau ⓘ Israel Meir Lau ⓘ Isser Yehuda Unterman ⓘ Shlomo Goren ⓘ Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog ⓘ Yona Metzger ⓘ
officeLocation	Jerusalem ⓘ
oversees	religious services for Ashkenazi Jews in Israel ⓘ state kashrut system (together with Sephardi Chief Rabbi) ⓘ state rabbinical courts (together with Sephardi Chief Rabbi) ⓘ
partOf	Israeli Chief Rabbinate ⓘ surface form: Chief Rabbinate of Israel
predecessorOffice	Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine
rank	one of the two highest-ranking rabbinic authorities in Israel ⓘ
religiousLaw	Halakha ⓘ
religiousTradition	Judaism ⓘ
residence	Jerusalem ⓘ
role	halachic authority for Israel’s Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ spiritual leader of Israel’s Ashkenazi Jewish community ⓘ
selectionMethod	elected by a special electoral body ⓘ
symbolicStatus	national religious figure for Ashkenazi Jews in Israel ⓘ
termLength	10 years ⓘ
titleInHebrew	הרב הראשי האשכנזי לישראל ⓘ
worksWith	Israeli Ministry of Religious Services ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Description of subject: The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel is one of the two highest-ranking rabbinic authorities in the country, serving as the spiritual leader and halachic authority for Israel’s Ashkenazi Jewish community.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Israeli Chief Rabbinate → headedBy → Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel ⓘ

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel → predecessorOffice → Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine