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Hasidic Rabbi and IDF General
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Hoshea Friedman-Ben Shalom (born 1959) is a brigadier general in the IDF and the current Pashkaner Rebbe.
Biography
Hoshea Friedman-Ben Shalom was born in Reshafim, a kibbutz in northeastern Israel. When he was 3 years old, his family moved to Sa'ad, a religious kibbutz in the Negev desert. Friedman-Ben Shalom is the son of RebbeYisrael Friedman, the Pashkaner Rebbe (and inherited that title upon his father's passing), and his mother, Tziporah, is the daughter of the Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz. He is married and has five children.