# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-yehuda-lefkowitz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:20:48.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-yehuda-lefkowitz"
name: "Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz"
slug: "michel-yehuda-lefkowitz"
description: "Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz was an Israeli Haredi Torah leader and rosh yeshiva in Bnei Brak for over 70 years. He was a maggid shiur at Yeshivas Tiferes Tzion from 1940 to 2011 and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Ponovezh L’Tzeirim from 1954 to 2009, raising thousands of students. He was a member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah, a member of Mifal HaShas, and nasi (president) of the Acheinu kiruv organization, and played a leading role in the fight for Torah-true education in yeshivas and Talmud Torahs in Israel. In addition to his own Torah works, he published the teachings of his rebbi, Rabbi Shlomo Heiman, in the two-volume Chiddushei Shlomo."
tagline: "Lithuanian Torah leader in Israel, Rosh yeshiva"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%9C_%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A5.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "1913"
deathDate: "2011-06-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.96251608751609
  historical:           5.482182666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  228
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Michal Yehouda Lefkowitz"
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    title: "מיכל יהודה ליפקוביץ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump