Yaakov Ades

Rabbi
Yaakov Ades
יעקב עדס
Rabbi Yaakov Ades in 1952
Personal life
Born
Yaakov Hai Zion Ades

February 24, 1898
DiedJuly 19, 1963(1963-07-19) (aged 65)
Jerusalem, israel
SpouseHaya Esther Harari-Raful
ChildrenAvraham Haim
Ezra
Moshe Yosef
Yehuda
1 daughter
Parent(s)Avraham Haim Ades
Tzalha Swed
Alma materPorat Yosef Yeshiva
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
PositionRosh Yeshiva
YeshivaPorat Yosef Yeshiva
PositionDayan and Av Beit Din
OrganisationIsrael Rabbinate High Court of Appeals
OtherDayan, Sephardic Beit Din of Jerusalem (19441955)
BuriedHar HaMenuchot

Yaakov Hai Zion Ades (Hebrew: יעקב חי ציון עדס; February 24, 1898 July 19, 1963), also spelled Adas or Adess, was a Sephardi Hakham, Rosh Yeshiva, and Rabbinical High Court judge. As rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem, he raised thousands of students, including Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel; Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef; and Rabbi Yehuda Hakohen Rabin, Chief Rabbi of Bukharan Jewry in Israel.