Rabbi Younes Hamami Lalehzar (Persian: یونس حمامی لالهزار) is the current religious leader of Iranian Jews.
Earlier life
Younes Hamami was born in 1965 in Yazd, Iran in a religious Jewish family. His father, Musa Hamami was one of the prominent merchants of Yazd. He studied at Alliance Israelite Universelle school in Yazd and Tehran. In 1986 he entered Shahid Beheshti University to study medicine and he finished his medical degree in 1993. In 2001 he obtained his internal medicine board from the same school.
During the same time, he studied Jewish religious law under the supervision of famous Iranian Rabbis such as Musa Rabbani, Zion Hakakian, Musa Tajian, and Levi Hayyim. He further studied Torah and Talmud under chief Rabbi Uriel Davidi and Rabbi Baal Nes in Shiraz.
He has been the spokesperson for the Beth din of Tehran Jewish Committee. He further helped create official religious books for Jewish students in high school. He has been teaching in Yeshiva of Abrishami Synagogue since 1996.[2][3]
Personal life
Younes Hamami is married to Helen Moghaddam, they have two daughters and a son.[2]
