Yaacov Gonchel

Yaacov Gonchel descends from a long line of bahtawi, the esteemed custodians of the Torah and leaders of Ethiopian Jewry. He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut and Bet Moriah in Beersheba, and holds an LLM and a master’s degree in Jewish philosophy from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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