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== Establishment of Sanz-Klausenburg ==
Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam arrived in the United States in 1946 after miraculously surviving the Holocaust, and established the Sanz-Klausenburg institutions in America.

In 1955 he came to Israel. There he established his magnificent institutions in Netanya, in the center of the large Kiryat Sanz, which houses the yeshiva, Talmud Torah, girls' school, and medical center. He also established Kiryat Sanz in central Jerusalem with an impressive network of institutions.

Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda once said that he envied Lubavitch.

After his passing in Tammuz 1994, his path is continued by his son Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Halberstam in Israel (known as the Sanzer Rebbe), and his second son Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Halberstam in Brooklyn (known as the Sanz-Klausenburg Rebbe).

Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Halberstam, the Sanzer Rebbe, maintains a friendly relationship with Chabad. Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, currently the Sanz-Klausenburg Rebbe, came to comfort the Rebbe after the passing of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka. He asked the Rebbe for a blessing for his father Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda's health, and the Rebbe blessed him.

Many Sanz-Klausenburg rabbis maintained close connections with the Rebbe, including Rabbi Eliyahu Shmerler, head of Kiryat Sanz yeshivos (who signed the psak din that the Rebbe is Melech HaMoshiach), Rabbi Aharon Wieder, rabbi of the Sanz community in New York and father-in-law of the Klausenburg Rebbe - United States, Rabbi Shmuel Alexander Unsdorfer, father-in-law of the Sanz-Klausenburg Rebbe, Rabbi Binyamin Wilger, a close associate of the Sanz-Klausenburg Rebbe, and others.