Background
Melamed was born in Tel Aviv in 1937. In 1954 he began to study at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva under Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. He studied at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva for about a decade, teaching there as well. In 1978 he founded a yeshiva in Beit El.
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