The Public Emissaries
Rabbi Reuven Ohana
Torah scholar and Torah writer · Some twenty years in the Safed rabbinate
Reuven Ohana is a resident of Tzfat and a Torah scholar who served twenty years in the Safed rabbinate. He grew up in the home of Moroccan immigrants, in a rabbinical family from Casablanca.
He studied at a state-religious school and at a hesder yeshiva, then served in a combat unit and the reserves during the Lebanon War. At the end of his regular service, he and his wife chose a Charedi life and settled in Tzfat, among the first families of the Maor Chaim neighborhood.
He studied in a kollel and then served in various positions in the city’s rabbinate. Alongside his rabbinical work he has devoted many years to Torah writing. His articles appear in Torah journals, among them Ohr Torah and Moriah, and he is cited in the responsa of Rabbi Shalom Messas zt”l.
He gives Torah classes in synagogues, has accompanied immigrant families from the former Soviet Union, and remains active on behalf of the elderly as well.
His children were educated in Charedi institutions, with some of them having served in the IDF, and some of them learning full time.
The Areas He Leads
