# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaakov-yisrael-kanievsky
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:18:20.146Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaakov-yisrael-kanievsky"
name: "Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky"
slug: "yaakov-yisrael-kanievsky"
description: "Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as The Steipler or The Steipler Gaon ,\nwas a Haredi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and posek \n(decider of Jewish law in new situations), and the author of Kehilos Yaakov, a 19-volume commentary on the Talmud."
tagline: "Israeli rabbi"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rabbi_Kanyevsky_of_Bnei_Brak_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "1899-06-17"
deathDate: "1985-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.257996
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky"
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    title: "יעקב ישראל קניבסקי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jaakow Izrael Kaniewski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Каневский, Яаков Исраэль"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump