# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yosef-shalom-eliashiv
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:35:31.328Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yosef-shalom-eliashiv"
name: "Yosef Shalom Eliashiv"
slug: "yosef-shalom-eliashiv"
description: "Yosef Shalom Elyashiv was a Haredi rabbi and posek who lived in Jerusalem. Until his death at the age of 102, Rav Elyashiv was the paramount leader of both Israel and the Diaspora Lithuanian-Haredi community, and many Ashkenazi Jews regarded him as the posek ha-dor, the contemporary leading authority on halakha, or Jewish law."
tagline: "Israeli haredi rabbi. (1910–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RavElyashiv2.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
birthDate: "1910-04-10"
deathDate: "2012-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.23
  momentum:             0.4675652906486942
  historical:           8.822793333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%91"
    title: "יוסף שלום אלישיב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "يوسف شالوم الياشيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schalom_Elyashiv"
    title: "Joseph Schalom Elyashiv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Shalom_Elyashiv"
    title: "Yosef Shalom Elyashiv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Shalom_Eliashiv"
    title: "Yosef Shalom Eliashiv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Shalom_Eliashiv"
    title: "Yosef Shalom Eliashiv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%A3_%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%91"
    title: "יוסף שלום אלישיב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Shalom_Eliashiv"
    title: "Yosef Shalom Eliashiv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Shalom_Eliashiv"
    title: "Yosef Shalom Eliashiv"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B2%2C_%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC"
    title: "Эльяшив, Йосеф Шалом"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983259"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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