Avraham Elkanah Shapira was born to a Jerusalemite family; his father was Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Shapira. Avraham Shapira est né dans une famille jérusalemite ; son père est le rabbin Shlomo Zalman Shapira.
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Rabbi Aryeh Strikovski (Machanaim Yeshiva and Pardes Institute) worked in the 1990s with Rabbi Avraham Shapira (then a co-Chief rabbi of Israel) to initiate the program for training Orthodox women as halakhic Toanot ("advocates") in rabbinic courts. Le rabbin Aryeh Strikovski a travaillé dans les années 1990 avec le rabbin Avraham Shapira pour lancer le programme de formation des femmes orthodoxes Halakhiques Toanot dans les tribunaux rabbiniques.
