# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaakov-ariel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:52:56.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaakov-ariel"
name: "Yaakov Ariel"
slug: "yaakov-ariel"
description: "Yaakov Ariel is the former chief rabbi of the city of Ramat Gan, Israel, and a cofounder of Gush Emunim, an Israeli ultranationalist organization. Ariel served as a rosh yeshiva in the abandoned Israeli settlement of Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula until 1982; the year he took the role is unknown. Ariel is the president of the Ramat Gan Yeshiva, the roshei yeshiva of which are rabbis Yehoshua Shapira and Ben-Tzion Moshe Elgazi. He also served as the rabbi of Kfar Maimon for roughly 25 years."
tagline: "Israeli rabbi"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yaakov_Ariel%2C_July_2017_(0332).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "1937-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.648024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  231
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.toraland.org.il/אתר-הרב-יעקב-אריאל/"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "يعقوب ارييل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja'akov_Ari'el"
    title: "Ja'akov Ari'el"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov_Ariel"
    title: "Yaakov Ariel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov_Ariel"
    title: "Yaakov Ariel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C"
    title: "יעקב אריאל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2910004"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump