# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/avraham-shapira
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:02.672Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/avraham-shapira"
name: "Avraham Shapira"
slug: "avraham-shapira"
description: "Avraham Shapira was a prominent rabbi in the Religious Zionist world. Shapira had been the head of the Rabbinical court of Jerusalem, and both a member and the head of the Supreme Rabbinic Court. He served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993. Shapira was the rosh yeshiva of Mercaz haRav in Jerusalem, a position he held since Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook died in 1982."
tagline: "Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elections_for_the_next_Chief_Rabbis_in_Jerusalem_(FL63301981).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "1910"
deathDate: "2007-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.078588
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "אברהם אלקנה כהנא שפירא"
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    title: "Шапира, Авраам Элькана"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump