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Ehrenfeld moved to Kiryat Mattersdorf in the early 1990s and served as president of all these institutions. Akiva Ehrenfeld also founded Yeshivas Beis Shmuel, named for his father, in the mid-1980s. He established close ties with the government of Austria to obtain funding for several
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by offering attractive terms for apartments and land for the yeshiva at the southeast end of the neighborhood. Torah Ore opened in Kiryat
Mattersdorf in 1971. Ehrenfeld also encouraged other Torah institutions to populate the community.
242:. At the time of his birth, his grandfather, Rabbi Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld, was the Rav of the city; upon his death in 1926, Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld succeeded him as Rav. Akiva had a younger brother, Simcha Bunim, and five sisters.
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Ehrenfeld declined to serve as the neighborhood's Rav. Instead, he acted as president of Kiryat
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Pioneer in America: An Affectionate Family Chronicle
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in 1994, which included a side tour of Kiryat
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