Recently, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, has returned to public discussion. Former MK Tehila Friedman, in a featured Times of Israel blog ...

Though Friedman later acknowledges that it was the Mizrachi’s founder, Rabbi Isaac’s pragmatic political ... most notably Abraham Kook and his son, Zvi Yehudah, who carried and spread his ...