Yaakov Bleich

Yaakov Dov Bleich (born October 19, 1964) is an American-born rabbi. He is the chief rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine. and serves as vice-president of the World Jewish Congress since 2009.
Biography.
Rabbi Bleich graduated from Telshe Yeshiva High School in Chicago, Illinois where he began his rabbinical studies. From 1984 to 1986, he studied at the Karlin Stolin Rabbinical Institute in Jerusalem.
In 1989 Rabbi Bleich moved to Kyiv, Ukraine and became the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine and Rabbi of the Main synagogue in Kyiv. He has since opened many institutions, including boys schools, girls schools, Cheders, Bais Yaakov, the first Jewish Summer Camp in Ukraine, a yeshiva, a kollel, boys and girls orphanages, student centers, the lady's program, men programs, children programs, an old age home, a synagogue with Mikvah, kosher hotel and restaurants, Jewish community centers, and many more programs around Kyiv and Ukraine. 
Rabbi Bleich today lives in Kyiv and has one of the biggest and growing Jewish communities in Ukraine. In 2018, Kyiv weekly magazine "Focus" named Rabbi Bleich the most powerful Jewish man in the country.