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Rabbi Yehezkel (Aryeh) Fogel (born on June 23, 1946) is an ultra-Orthodox rabbi and a pioneer in the ultra-Orthodox academic field in Israel, who founded the Mivhar College (Bnei Brak's Orthodox College) in 2000, and since 2003 serves as the General Director and Chairman of the ultra-Orthodox campuses of the Ono Academic College. Previously was the founder and Director of the ultra-Orthodox Center for Vocational Training (non-academic), the first vocational training institution for ultra-orthodox men in Israel, established in 1996. He also founded (in 1997) the Magen Institute for (ultra-Orthodox) Women, as well as "Mesila", the first Engineering School, for ultra-Orthodox people. Until 1996 he managed the famous Ariel - Harry Fishel Institutions, for the Ordainig of Rabbis and Rabbinical Judges.

Yehezkel (Aryeh) Fogel, was born on June 23, 1946, in Romuli, in the Transylvanian region of Romania, to his father Menachem Mendel, and his mother Pesia (Pessi) Rachel,  descended of the great and famous Rabbi Yehezkel Panet, the wriiter of "Mareh Yehezkel", and Chief Rabbi of Transylvania (Formerly known as Zimbergen) and his son, the Great Rabbi Menachem Mendel Panet the founder of the Dezj Chasidic Court. In 1958, when Yeheskel Fogel was twelve years old, he immigrated to Israel with his family. He studied at the Nehalim High School Yeshiva, then at the famous Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and at the "Harry Fishel Institute" for the Training of Rabbis and Rabbinical Judges.

In 2017, the Jerusalem Municipality awarded him the title "Yakir Yerushalayim" ward for his work as a pioneer in the field of ultra-Orthodox academia: "for laying the infrastructure for academic and professional training for the ultra-Orthodox population and for publishing rich and diverse Torah literature."

Rabbi Fogel was ordained to the rabbinate by Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, Chief Rabbi of Israel and Rabbi Yehezkel Sarna, Rosh Hayeshiva of Hebron Yeshiva, and Rabbi Yitzhak Yaakov Wechtfogel, Rosh Hayeshiva of Meah Shearim Yeshiva. Until 1978 he served as rabbi of the Ohel Jacob of Bell's Corner Synagogoge in Philadelphia. Then, until 1982 served as military Chaplain in the IDF at the settlmend Beit El.

In 1982 he managed the Educational Center in Ashdod, supported by the Zev Wolfson Foundation, a Junior High School Yeshiva for boy's and girls from low economic families, with a traditional background, to provide them with high-level Torah and general studies,.

In 1986, he began to serve as CEO of the "Ariel-Harry Fishel Institution" for the Training of Rabbis and Rabbinical Judges, In the same place where he studied as a young man, under the presidency of Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi of Haifa.

After retiring from the Ariel Institute in 1993, he worked for a short time as the CEO of the "Jerusalem Institute for Torah research and Publising".

Fogel has been engaged in Torah research: In the years 1969-1972 he worked as one of the editors of the encyclopedia "Torah Shlema" as well as in the famous Halacha enterprise "Halacha Psuka". He also made a pioneering research of the 800 years old manuscripts of the writtings of Tosafot Rabeinu Peretz's on the Mackot tractate and edited a new version of the so-called "Tosafot Shentz" on the Mackot tractate. He was the chief editor of the ten book series of the "Sages Commentaries on the Bible" published by the "Yahdav Institute".

During his time as CEO of the Ariel-Harry Fishel Institutions, he headed the editorial board of the "Rashi Hashem on the Pentateuch", publication. For his research and written article on "The Fire System on the Big Altar at the Holly Temple" he was awarded the "Jerusalem Award for Outstanding Torah Works" by the Mayor of Jerusalem 1971. In 2017 he published, after many years of research, the book "Craftsmanship and Worksmanship" as described in the Great Sages writtings in the Talmud - the Torah view of this contreversial subject.

The New Printing of the Talmud
The first tractate of the Talmud was printed in 1492 in Toledo, Spain.Almost thirdy years later, In 1520, ,all the tractates of the Talmud were printed for the first time In a complete edition by Daniel Bamberg in the Shonzino printing press in Venice. Since then the Talmus has been printed in various cities throughout Europe. In 1880 the Talmud was printed together with many commentaries by the  Romm Publishing House in Vilnius, Lithuania.The pattern and design of this famous edition was accepted by most of the Jewish communities in the world. Following the destruction of the printing plates by the Nazis in the Holocaust, a photocopy of the Vilnius edition of the Talmud has been printed numerous times.

In 1993, Rabbi Fogel came up with the idea of ​​reprinting the Talmud in a new print edition and for the first time in the Land of Israel. In 1995, the first tractate (Kiddushin) was printed and published, by the "Yahdav Institute". In 1997, the publisher Aharon Blum joined the venture and the entire Talmud was printed in the Land of Israel.

Professional training and academic education in the ultra-orthodox sector
In 1996, Dr. Avraham Fuss, a New York lawyer who lived in Israel, together with Zvi Weinberger, who until then headed the "Lev Institute", initiated the establishment of the Vocational Training Center in Israel for the ultra-orthodox men who ussualy study in the Yeshiva, to be trained for technical professions that will enable them to get jobs and support their families. The issue beeing very sensitive and renewed in the Ultra-Orthodox community they looked for a very professional manager as well as a known scholar. So, Rabbi Fogel was appointed for the important position of the general manager of the Center. Rabbi Yerachmiel Boyer, former mayor of Bnei Brak, was instrumental in obtaining the approval of the Ultra-Orthodox leadership. He approached Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shech with this question. Rabbi Shech answered in the affirmative in principle and sent Boyer to consult with a number of yeshiva leaders, and also directed him to Rabbi Elyashiv who would accompany the institution from a Torah point of view. To this end, a rabbinical committee was established, whose composition was based on the representatives of the various sectors of ultra-Orthodox Judaism: Rabbi Yosef Israelzon on behalf of the Gerish Elyashiv - his son-in-law, Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer Stern on behalf of Rabbi Gersh Wazner, and Rabbi Mordechai Steinmetz on behalf of the Rebbe of Moiznitz. After a year, his approval was also received. - The approval of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef for the activity of the ultra-orthodox center.

Under the management of Rabbi Fogel, the ultra-Orthodox center was established in Jerusalem and its branches in other ultra-Orthodox cities: Bnei Brak, Modi'in Illit, Ashdod. The courses in which the Man were trained were in the fields of computer programming, computer and network maintenance, accounting, computer graphics, a year later the Magen Institute for Women was established as part of the ultra-Orthodox vocational training center, where ultra-orthodox women and girls were trained for a variety of professions: a year later the Masila Institute was established - The first ultra-Orthodox institute for training male and female engineers, where thousands of students were trained for engineering degrees in a variety of professions: computers, electronics, industry and management, construction engineering and architecture.

In 1999, following efforts to find suitable employment opportunities foryeshiva graduates, the entrepreneurs came up with the idea of opening a framework for academic training. The idea was brought before the rabbinical committee, which devoted a lot of time and thought to it, being a higher and academic education, identified with the Haskalah movement. The rabbinical committee, together with Rabbi Fogel, turned to the great men of Israel, Hagarish Elyashiv, and then Hagarel Steinman and Hagaresh Wazner, who gave their consent to the idea on the condition that they would not teach degrees in which there is Goth and heresy.

Fogel turned to Professor Nehemiah Levzion (chairman of the OT at the time), who convened a meeting with heads of universities - including the president of the Open University as well as the president of the Lev Institute at the time, Prof. Yosef Bodenheimer, and suggested that they establish a special academic framework adapted to the ultra-Orthodox. They responded positively and later they did open such frameworks for ultra-Orthodox people.

The main problem was the lack of previous general studies in general and a matriculation certificate in particular. Prof. Nehmia Levtzion and Vogel recruited Dr. Pelati Setoi, the then CEO of the Association for Education, which ran the pre-academic preparatory schools, and established the model of the pre-academic preparatory school for the ultra-Orthodox, which was based on four basic areas of study: mathematics, English, literacy and computers.

In 2000, Rabbi Vogel together with Dr. Foss opened the first ultra-Orthodox academic college in Bnei Brak under the name MaBhar (Bnei Brak Ultra-Orthodox College), where men, including Ebrachi, as well as ultra-Orthodox women studied on separate days and in an atmosphere suitable for the ultra-Orthodox public. Its first president was appointed Prof. Meir Bruckheimer, who then retired from his work at the Weizmann Institute.

In an academic collaboration with Bar Ilan University, study tracks were opened for academic degrees, in computer science for men and for a degree in social work for women. Later, additional courses were opened: for men - social work in collaboration with the University of Haifa, for women - a degree in communication disorders with Tel Aviv University as well as a degree in occupational therapy in collaboration with the University of Haifa.

In 2004, Rabbi Fogel was asked by Mr. Ranan Hartman, the founder and CEO of the Ono Academic Kirya to head the ultra-orthodox campus of the Or Yehuda. study, advanced technological equipment, a well-equipped library) and educationally (first-rate lecturers who teach identical courses on both campuses, uniform level of studies, identical exams and identical degrees).

In 2007, the ultra-Orthodox campus was established in Jerusalem and under the management of Rabbi Vogel, approximately 3,000 students studied at the ultra-orthodox campuses every year, for various undergraduate degrees: law, business administration, accounting, communication disorders, occupational therapy, education and society, advertising and marketing communication, and also for a master's degree: in management business, and in law. During the years of Rabbi Vogel's management, the ultra-orthodox campus produced many thousands of graduates who integrated into the broad employment market. Beginning in 2016, Rabbi Vogel serves as the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox campuses of the Ono Academic District.

His books and essays

 * The fire systems on the altar in the Temple appears in the "Domshin" file, volume 9 (a Torah research winner of the Jerusalem Prize for Torah Culture).
 * Tosaf Rabbi Peretz on the Mask of Beats published by the Harry Fishel Institute.
 * "Shantz" additions on a mechette, published by the Harry Fishel Institute
 * The craft, the work and the art in the Mishnah of the Sages - according to the Torah of the first and last, published by the Institute of Jewish Studies.

his family
Fogel was married to Amrama, the daughter of Rabbi Mordechai HaCohen. and He has four sons and a daughter