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The Chief Rabbi is the title given in several countries to the recognised religious leader of that country's Jewish community. Cities with large Jewish communities may also have their own Chief Rabbi, this is especially the case in Israel but has also been past practice in major Jewish centres in Europe.

1 Chief Rabbis of Britain

Judah Loeb Cohen (1696-1700)
Aaron the Scribe of Dublin (1700-1704)
Aaron Hart (1704-1756)
Hart Lyon (1758-1764)
David Tevele Schiff (1765-1791)
Solomon Hirschell (1802-1842)
Nathan Marcus Adler (1845-1891)
Hermann Marcus Adler (1891-1911)
Joseph Herman Hertz (1911-1946)
Sir Israel Brodie (1948-1965)
Lord Immanuel Jakobovits (1966-1991)
Jonathan Sacks (since 1991)

2 Chief Rabbis of Palestine (Ottoman rule)

Abraham Ashkenazi (1869-1880)

2.1 Ashkenazi Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem (Ottoman rule)

Meïr Auerbach
Samuel Salant

2.2 Sephardic Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem (Ottoman rule)

Jacob Saul Alyashar

2.3 Chief Rabbis of Israel ( Ashkenazi)

Abraham Isaac Kook (1921-1935)
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1936-1959)
Isser Yehuda Unterman (1964-1973)
Shlomo Goren (1973-1983)
Avraham Shapiro (1983-1993)
Yisrael Meir Lau (1993-2003)
Yona Metzger (since 2003)

2.4 Chief Rabbis of Israel ( Sephardic)

Jacob Meir (1921-1939)
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Ouziel (1939-1953)
Yitzhak Nissim (1955-1973)
Ovadia Yosef (1973-1983)
Eliyahu Bakshi Doron (1993-2003)
Shlomo Amar (since 2003)

3 External link

Website of the Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth

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