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| name                      = Yisroel Yaakov Fisher
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| birth_date                = {{Birth date|1928|7|9}} (21 [[Tammuz (Hebrew month)|Tammuz]] 5688 [[Anno Mundi]])
| birth_place               = [[Jerusalem]], [[Mandatory Palestine|Mandate of Palestine]]
| death_date                = {{Death date and age|2003|2|28|1928|7|9}} (25 [[Adar I]] 5663 [[Anno Mundi]])
| death_place               = [[Jerusalem]]
| resting_place             = [[Har HaMenuchot]]
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| nationality               = {{flagicon|Israel}} [[Israel]]
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| occupation                = Rabbi
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| children                  = Aharon<br>Yehuda<br>Moshe
| relatives                 = Moshe Braverman (son in law)<br>Y. Rotman (son in law)
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'''Yisroel Yaakov Fisher''' (1928&ndash;2003), was a leading [[posek]], [[Av Beit Din]] of the [[Edah HaChareidis]], and rabbi of the [[Zichron Moshe]] neighbourhood in [[Jerusalem]].
He was born in Jerusalem in 1928 to Rabbi Aharon Fisher, a prominent member of the [[Perushim]] community. He was named after the political activist [[Jacob Israël de Haan]] who had been assassinated four years earlier. As a teenager, he studied in the [[Etz Chaim Yeshiva]] and became a close student of Rabbi [[Isser Zalman Meltzer]]. He was later married to the daughter of Rabbi Zelig Wallis and they settled in Batei Horodno area of Jerusalem.
In 1961, he was appointed as a ''moreh tzedek'' and two years later, in 1963, he was invited to serve as rabbi of the Great Synagogue of [[Zikhron Moshe]]. In 1974, he was made a member of the [[Badatz]] of the [[Edah HaChareidis]]. In 1996, he was appointed [[Av Beit Din]] of the Edah HaChareidis.
He died in 2003 and is buried on [[Har HaMenuchot]].
==Works==
*''Even Yisroel'' — several volumes of [[responsa]]
==Sources==
*[http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/archives5763/PKD63arfisher.htm HaRav Yisroel Yaakov Fisher, by Betzalel Kahn (Dei'ah veDibur)]
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[[Category:20th-century rabbis in Jerusalem]]
[[Category:Rabbis of the Edah HaChareidis]]
[[Category:Burials at Har HaMenuchot]]