Rabbi Eliezer Melamed is one of the most widely read Torah educators in Israel today. He is the rabbi of the Har Bracha community and head of its hesder yeshiva. His Peninei Halakha series has sold half a million copies in Hebrew and is used as a textbook in many Israeli schools. In 2013, he received the prestigious Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook Prize for Jewish Creativity.