David Samson

Who is David Samson?

David Samson is an Orthodox rabbi and one of the leading English-speaking Torah scholars in the Religious Zionist movement in Israel. Rabbi Samson has written five books most of which are on the teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook and Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook.

Rabbi Samson was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His grandfather was Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Samson, who was the Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore for over 50 years. After moving to Israel, he studied under the tutelage of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook for twelve years. He served as a congregational rabbi of Kehillate Dati Leumi Synagogue in Har Nof, Jerusalem. He teaches Talmud and Jewish Studies at Yashlatz. Rabbi David Samson also appears on the weekly TV feature magazine "Israeli Salad" on Arutz Sheva broadcast. Currently he is the dean of Maale Erev Institutions, a set of high schools for youth at risk and the rosh yeshiva of yeshivat Lech Lecah, a mobile high school based in jeeps. In recent years Rabbi Samson has opened up a number of school in 2008 he started YTA YTA Yerushalayim Torah Academy is a Yeshiva High School for English speakers located in Yerushalayim. It is designed especially for the immigrant community and offers a new and innovative program that has become the model for the Ministry of Education. Then in quick succession he opened YTA for girls a similar program for girls located in Kiryat Yovel. In September 2011 he founded, a third yeshiva High school for English speakers located in Kfar Saba.