# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yisrael-meir-lau
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:16:19.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yisrael-meir-lau"
name: "Yisrael Meir Lau"
slug: "yisrael-meir-lau"
description: "Yisrael (Israel) Meir Lau is a Holocaust survivor who served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1993 to 2003. He was previously Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel. After his tenure as chief rabbi, he was appointed chairman of Yad Vashem."
tagline: "Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Holocaust survivor (b. 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%91_%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-06-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.81059466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  248
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "يسرائيل مئير لاو"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yisrael Meir Lau"
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    title: "Yisrael Meir Lau"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лау, Исраэль Меир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump