Moshe-Zvi Neria

Moshe-Zvi Neria
משה צבי נריה
Neria in 1969
Faction represented in the Knesset
1969–1974National Religious Party
Personal details
Born29 January 1913
Łódź, Russian Empire
Died12 December 1995(1995-12-12) (aged 82)

Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria (Hebrew: משה צבי נריה; 29 January 1913 – 12 December 1995) was an Israeli educator, writer, and rosh yeshiva who served as a member of the Knesset for the National Religious Party between 1969 and 1974. Neria established and headed the Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Kfar Haroeh, and was one of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook's most influential disciples. Due to his far-reaching influence on Religious Zionism, he is known as "the father of the knit kippah generation."