Ovadia Hedaya

Born24 December 1889
Allepo, SyriaDied8 February 1969(1969-02-08) (aged 79)LanguageHebrewCitizenshipIsraeliNotable awardsIsrael Prize (1968)

Ovadia Hedaya (Hebrew: עובדיה הדאיה‎, 24 December 1889 – 8 February 1969) was a leading Israeli rabbi.

Rabbi Hadaya was born in 1889 in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, to rabbi Shalom Hedaya.^[1] In 1945, he succeeded his father as head of Yeshivat HaMekubalim, the center of kabbalistic study in Jerusalem.

• In 1968, Rabbi Hedaya was awarded the Israel Prize, in Rabbinical literature.^[2]

• Yaskil Avdi (ישכיל עבדי‎): (Eight volumes)

• List of Israel Prize recipients