Years: 1895–1983
Primary city: Jerusalem
Rabbi Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and prolific author who was active in Poland, Israel, and the United States. His life's work was the monumental Torah Sheleimah, an encyclopedia that gathers and arranges Midrashic and Talmudic sources corresponding to each verse of the Torah. A close chassid of the Gerrer Rebbe, he founded the Sefat Emet yeshiva in Jerusalem and was a prominent religious Zionist thinker who argued that the establishment of the State of Israel was the beginning of the prophesied redemption.