Rabbi Zvi Yanir has served as a community rabbi in Petah Tikva since 1999. He is certified in rabbinical law and licensed as a city rabbi by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, and has been certified as a dayan (rabbinical judge) by the Eretz Hemda Institute. He holds a B.Ed. in Education from Jerusalem College and an MA in Talmudic Studies from Bar-Ilan University.
Rabbi Zvi Yanir taught at the Har Etzion and Petah Tikva yeshivas and managed the teacher’s institute at the Petah Tikva yeshiva for more than a decade, in collaboration with Orot Israel College.
He began teaching at Nativ in 2013 and was appointed Conversion Director in 2015.
