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Levi Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz (born 3 July 1921, Boston,^[1] died 5 December 2009, Jerusalem^[2]) was a rabbi and the second rebbe of the Boston Hasidic Dynasty founded by his father, Pinchos Dovid Horowitz. He was the first American-born Hasidic rebbe^[3] and the founder of ROFEH International, a community-based medical referral and hospitality liaison support agency.^[4]

Horowitz's parents were Pinchos Dovid Horowitz, founder of the Boston Hasidic dynasty, and Sora Sosha Horowitz. His father died in November 1941. In November 1942^[1] he married Raichel Unger Leifer of Cleveland, Ohio,^[5][6] a descendant of Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz.

In 1943, Horowitz was one of over 400 rabbis led by Baruch Korff who traveled to Washington, D.C. just before Yom Kippur, to ask President Franklin D. Roosevelt to rescue Jews from Hitler.^[3][7]

Horowitz suffered a cardiac arrest on July 6, 2009, and was hospitalized in the Sharei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem.^[8] He died on December 5, 2009 and was buried that night on the Mount of Olives.^[9]

Per his will, he was succeeded by all his sons:

·        his eldest son, the Chuster rabbi, Pinchos Dovid Horowitz (died 2021)^[10][11] as Bostoner rebbe of Borough Park, Brooklyn^[10]

·        his second son, Mayer Alter, as Bostoner rebbe of Jerusalem

·        his third son, Naftali Yehuda, as Bostoner rebbe of Boston.^[12]