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    Yochi Brandes

    Born (1959-02-19) February 19, 1959 (age 66)
    Haifa, Israel
    LanguageHebrew
    CitizenshipIsraeli
    SpouseOfer Brandes
    Children4

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    Israeli novelist and essayist Yochi Brandes (Hebrew: יוכי ברנדס‎) was born in Haifa on February 19, 1959, to Yaffa (Miriam Sheindl) and Rabbi Yitzhak Ya’akov Rabinowitz, the Biala Rebbe of Ramat Aharon. In her youth, she spent one year living in the home of her grandfather (her mother's father) Rabbi Avraham Abish Kanner, the Tshechov Rebbe. She is married to Ofer Brandes and is the mother of four children.

    Brandes studied in ultra-Orthodox Bais_Yaakov schools in Petach Tikva and in Haifa, as well as at the Michlalah Jerusalem Torah College, Bar-Ilan University, and the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary. She holds a B.A. in Bible and Education and an M.A. in Bible and Jewish Studies.

    For many years, Yochi Brandes taught Bible and Jewish Thou

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