Rabbi Betzalel Zolty

Yaakov Bezalel Zolty served as Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem from 1977 until his death. An outstanding rabbinical scholar, he authored the responsa collection *Mishneh Ya'avitz* on *Choshen Mishpat* (1963), which earned him the Rabbi Kook Prize, and a companion volume on *Orach Chayim* laws of festivals (1976), along with *Ginzei ha-Sifrei* on *Sifrei* (1948). He also headed the Bet ha-Talmud of Yad ha-Rav Maimon and Yad Aharon Yeshivah, and taught in prominent Israeli yeshivot.