This is the page of Hakham Melech Rahmiel ben Ya'aqov of Jerusalem, Israel. Melech was named a Hakham by the World Alliance of Qara'im in 2011, and sits on the Mo'etzeth Hakhamim (Council of Sages) of the Alliance. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science (1990) from Yale University and an M.S. in Marine Biology (2022) from the University of the Algarve in Faro, Portugal. Melech grew up in a Conservative Jewish family in the suburbs of New York, and originally made aliyah to Israel in June, 1993. In the late 1990's he published the newspaper Your Jerusalem. While studying for close to a decade in Rabbinical yeshivas, Hakham Melech became increasingly cognizant of the doctrinal and practical flaws in Pharisaic (Rabbinical) Judaism, and drew closer to the ideas expressed by Karaism. In 2001, he was put in contact with the Karaite community in Jerusalem, and soon after, made the decision to officially identify himself as a Karaite. Since then, Hakham Melech has been active in studying, writing about and teaching the Tanach in Israel and abroad.