Yona Metzger

Rabbi
Yona Metzger
יונה מצגר
Personal life
NationalityIsraeli
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationOrthodox
Jewish leader
PredecessorYisrael Meir Lau
SuccessorDavid Lau
PositionAshkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel
Began2003
Ended2013

Yona Metzger (Hebrew: יונה מצגר; born 1953) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and the former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. In 2013, while chief rabbi, a fraud investigation was opened. Metzger later pleaded guilty to a number of corruption charges, was tried and convicted, and after a plea bargain was rejected, served prison time.

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