Yehuda Altshuler

Head of the The Ludwig and Erica Jesselson Institute for Advanced Torah Studies Bar Ilan University,

Married and father of eight, Melod, co-founded the Torah nucleus in the city.

Studied at the Shabbat Yisrael yeshiva in Efrat with Rabbi Shabbati Rappaport; Qualified Rabbi by the Chief Rabbinate; He served as rabbi at a yeshiva in Petach Tikva; he devoted his doctoral thesis in the Department of Israeli History at Bar Ilan University to the study of the Jewish communities in the Middle Ages.