Yaakov Meir
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Yaakov Meir CBE, was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Sephardic Chief Rabbi appointed under the British Mandate of Palestine. A Talmudic scholar, fluent in Hebrew as well as five other languages, he e
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Meir as Chief Rabbi of Salonica
The funeral procession of Chief Rabbi Yaakov Meir on Jaffa Street, Jerusalem, May 1939.
Eliyahu Moshe Panigel
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Eliyahu Moshe Panigel was the Sephardi chief rabbi of the Ottoman Empire, Zion and Jerusalem.
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…his Zionist affiliations. He was subsequently inducted as Hakham Bashi of Palestine but six months later, he was deposed by the Sultan of Turkey, and Eliyahu Moshe Panigel took charge of overseeing the Orthodox community. Meir went on to be elected chief rabbi of Salonica in 1908, where he remained until 1919. In this…
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Eliyahu Moshe Panigel Stamp