Rabbi Baruch Gigi is a co-Rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva

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 of Yeshivat Har Etzion

Yeshivat Har Etzion

Yeshivat Har Etzion, ', commonly known as "Gush," is a hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, a community in Gush Etzion in the West Bank, near Jerusalem, Israel. With a student body of 484, it is one of the largest hesder yeshivas in Israel...

 in Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank, Palestinian territories. The core group includes four agricultural villages that were founded in 1940-1947 on property purchased in the 1920s and 1930s, and ...

, south of Jerusalem.

He was born in Morocco

Morocco

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 and immigrated to Israel

Aliyah

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 at the age of 11. He first attended Yeshivat Har Etzion as a student in 1974 after studying in a yeshiva

Yeshiva

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 high school in Haifa

Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...

. He was ordained

Semicha

, also , or is derived from a Hebrew word which means to "rely on" or "to be authorized". It generally refers to the ordination of a rabbi within Judaism. In this sense it is the "transmission" of rabbinic authority to give advice or judgment in Jewish law...

 by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel

Chief Rabbinate of Israel

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 and received a BEd

Bachelor of Education

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 degree from Herzog College

Herzog College

Herzog College is a teacher's college located in Alon Shevut, Gush Etzion, in the West Bank. It is named for the diplomat Yaakov Herzog...

. From 1982-88, he taught in Yeshivat Ma'alot in the town of Ma'alot-Tarshiha

Ma'alot-Tarshiha

Ma'alot-Tarshiha is a mixed city in the North District in Israel, some 20 km east of Nahariya, about 600 meter above sea level. The city was established in 1963 through a municipal merger of the Arab town of Tarshiha and the Jewish town of Ma'alot...

 and since then has been teaching in Yeshivat Har Etzion.

Together with Rabbi Yaaqov Medan

Yaaqov Medan

Rabbi Yaaqov Medan is a co-Rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, and a lecturer in Tanakh, gemara, and Jewish philosophy....

, Rabbi Gigi joined Rabbi Yehuda Amital

Yehuda Amital

Yehuda Amital was an Orthodox rabbi, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a former member of the Israeli cabinet.-Biography:Amital was born in Oradea in Romania. When Germany occupied the area in 1944, the Nazis sent his entire family to Auschwitz where they were killed. Amital was sent to...

 and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein

Aharon Lichtenstein

Aharon Lichtenstein is a noted Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva.Rabbi Lichtenstein was born in Paris, France, but grew up in the United States, studied in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin under Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner...

 as a co-Rosh Yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva

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 on January 4, 2006.

He also serves as the rabbi of the Sephardi

Sephardi Jews

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 synagogue

Synagogue

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 in Alon Shvut

Alon Shvut

Alon Shvut is an Israeli settlement located southwest of Jerusalem, one kilometer northeast of Kfar Etzion, in the West Bank. Established in June 1970 in the heart of the Etzion bloc, Alon Shvut became the prototype for Jewish settlements in the region. It is administered by the Gush Etzion...

  (the town where the yeshiva is located), and he teaches several classes in the women's institutions Midreshet Lindenbaum

Midreshet Lindenbaum

Midreshet Lindenbaum , originally named Michlelet Bruria, was one of the early leaders in the women's talmud study movement. Michlelet Bruria was founded in 1976 by Rabbi Chaim Brovender, as the woman's component of Yeshivat Hamivtar...

 and Migdal Oz

Migdal Oz

Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women, commonly known as Migdal Oz , is an Orthodox Jewish institution of higher Torah study for women located in the Israeli settlement and Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion in the West Bank.-Overview:...

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