Rabbi David Rosen

David Rosen, KSG, CBE, is the Jerusalem-based international director of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee (AJC). The third son of the late renowned Rabbi Kopul Rosen, founder of Carmel College, David was educated in England and at yeshivot Mir and Har Etzyon in Israel. In addition to Israeli military service in the tank corps, he served as the military rabbi in West Sinai before going on shlihut with his wife Sharon to South Africa, where he became rabbi of the largest Jewish congregation in the country in Sea Point, Cape Town, and where he also served on the Cape Bet Din. He is a past chair of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC). Among many honors, David was made a papal knight by the pope and a commander of the british Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.