Years: 1882–1945
Primary city: Tel Aviv
Rabbi Moshe Avigdor Amiel served as Chief Rabbi of Antwerp and later Tel Aviv, and was a leading Religious Zionist thinker. His career connected Eastern European rabbinic culture with emerging centers in the Diaspora and Eretz Yisrael. His writings include the halachic methodology work Ha-Middot le-Cheker ha-Halakhah, homiletic collections such as Derashot el Ammi and Hegyonot el Ammi, and essays articulating a programmatic Religious Zionist ideology. Through his rabbinic leadership and educational initiatives, he helped shape modern Orthodox educational frameworks that combined intensive Torah study with general studies.