Rav Ilan Segal has been studying and teaching halachah for over thirty years. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, he studied in Netivot Yosef and Heichal Hatorah yeshivas in Eretz Yisrael. After receiving semichah from the Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rav Avraham Shapira and Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, Rav Segal served as the Rabbi of Pretoria, South Africa, for four years. Returning to Israel in 1994, he devoted himself to Torah education, teaching in Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim and Darchei Binah seminary, and later as the principal of Afikei Torah and Levavi seminaries. He has contributed to the English Mishnah Berurah, the Emunah in the Classroom series, and other Torah publications as a writer, translator, and editor. Rav Segal and his family live in Yerushalayim, where he divides his time between learning in kollel, teaching, and working on the English edition of the Aruch Hashulchan.