Yechezkel Sarna

Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna (1890–1969) was a disciple of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, (known as the "Alter (elder) of Slabodka"), spiritual mentor of the Slabodka yeshiva. He was sent by the Alter to move the yeshiva from Europe to Hebron in 1925, and following the Hebron Massacre of 1929, to Jerusalem. In 1934, he assumed the position of rosh yeshiva. Over the years, he produced thousands of students, many of whom became prominent roshei yeshiva and rabbis in Israel and abroad.