# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yosef-mendelevitch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:49:23.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yosef-mendelevitch"
name: "Yosef Mendelevitch"
slug: "yosef-mendelevitch"
description: "Yosef Mendelevitch is a refusenik from the former Soviet Union, also known as a \"Prisoner of Zion\" and now a politically unaffiliated rabbi living in Jerusalem who gained fame for his adherence to Judaism and public attempts to emigrate to Israel at a time when it was against the law in the USSR."
tagline: "Israeli rabbi (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mendelevich.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1947-08-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.691398666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 244
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Mendelevitch"
    title: "Yosef Mendelevitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "يوسف مندليفيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Mendelevitch"
    title: "Yosef Mendelevitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Менделевич, Иосиф Мозусович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Mendelevitch"
    title: "Yosef Mendelevitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A5'"
    title: "יוסף מנדלביץ'"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2897160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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