Pre-Israel religious authority Chief Rabbinate of Israel




1 pre-israel religious authority

1.1 chief rabbi of jerusalem
1.2 rishon lezion 1665–1842
1.3 hakham bashi 1842–1918





pre-israel religious authority
the chief rabbi of jerusalem


levi ibn habib (b. spain)—ruled jerusalem in 1538, rabbi jacob berab came spain via egypt, sought revive sanhedrin, in safed, making city competing capital of jewish community in palestine. opposed , exiled ibn habib , rabbis of jerusalem safed remained competing capital number of years thereafter. berab succeeded in safed joseph caro (b. spain) ordained him.
david ben solomon ibn abi zimra of egyptian rabbinate—ruled simultaneously in jerusalem succeeding ibn habib. in 1575, moshe trani (b. greece) succeeded caro in safed.
moshe ben mordechai galante of rome—ruled jerusalem
haim vital—succeeded trani in safed moved rabbinate jerusalem which, once again, became sole capital of israel. in 1586, nahmanides synagogue confiscated arabs , ben zakkai synagogue built in stead.
bezalel ashkenazi—first chief rabbi preside in ben zakkai synagogue
gedaliah cordovero
yitzhak gaon?
israel benjamin
jacob zemah (b. portugal)
samuel garmison (b. greece)

rishon lezion 1665–1842

moshe ben yonatan galante
moshe ibn habib came greece, descendant of levi ibn habib
moshe hayun
avraham yitzhaki (b. greece)
benjamin maali
elazar nahum (b. turkey)
nissim mizrahi
yitzhak rapaport
israel algazy served until 1756
raphael meyuchas ben shmuel served 1756–1791
haim ben asher
yom tov algazy—during reign, french armies of napoleon invaded palestine. served until 1802
moshe yosef mordechai meyuchas served 1802–1805
yaakov aish of maghreb
yaakov coral
yosef hazzan (b. turkey)
yom tov danon
shlomo suzin—in 1831, palestine briefly conquered egypt under muhammad ali.
yonah navon—palestine returned ottoman empire.
yehuda navon

the hakham bashi 1842–1918

avraham haim gaggin (b. turkey)
yitzhak kovo
chaim nissim abulafia (b. 1795, tiberias; d. 1860, jerusalem)
haim hazzan (b. turkey)
avraham ashkenazi (b. greece)
raphael panigel (b. bulgaria)
yaakov shaul elyashar
yaakov meir
yoseph zundel salant
shmuel salant
eliyahu moshe panigel
nahman batito
nissim danon—in 1917, palestine occupied british. danon succeeded chief rabbi after world war haim moshe eliashar assumed title of acting chief rabbi.




^ encyclopedia judaica— levi ben habib —vol. 11 col. 99; berab, jacob —vol. 4 cols. 582–4; caro, joseph —vol. 5 col. 194; galante, moses (i) —vol. 7 col. 260; ashkenazi, bezalel —vol. 3 col. 723; jewishencyclopedia.com, jerusalem—jacob berab , ibn habib
^ encyclopedia judaica— cordovero, gedaliah—vol. 5 col. 967
^ encyclopedia judaica— benjamin, baruch —vol. 4 col. 527; benjamin, israel —vol. 4 col. 528
^ http://jewishencyclopedia.com, jerusalem—solomon al-gazi s description
^ encyclopedia judaica— garmison, samuel —vol. 7 col. 329
^ encyclopedia judaica— rishon le-zion vol. 14 col. 193; jewishencyclopedia.com, jerusalem—in eighteenth century in nineteenth century albert cohn , ludwig frankl
^ encyclopedia judaica jews of jerusalem institutions ; encyclopedia judaica— israel, state of —religious life , communities—vol. 9 cols. 889–90
^ laredo, abraham isaac. les noms des juifs du maroc, consejo superior de investigaciones científicas, instituto b. arias montano, 1978. pg. 184






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