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Abraham Isaac Kook ( 1865 – 1935 ) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar.

He is known in Hebrew as הרב אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, and by the acronym הראיה ( HaRaAYaH ) which in English means " evidence ", or simply as " HaRav.

" He was one of the most celebrated and influential rabbis of the 20th century.