Raphael Meir Panigel

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Raphael Meir Panigel
Raphael Meir Panigel
Personal
Born1804
Died2 January 1893(1893-01-02) (aged 88–89)
ReligionJudaism
ChildrenVida Leah Eliashar, Yehudah Shlomo Panigel, Siniora Miriam Eliashar (biological), Yehuda Bechar, Eliahu Moshe Bechar Panigel (adoptive), possibly other
Jewish leader
PredecessorAvraham Ashkenazi
SuccessorYaakov Shaul Elyashar
PositionRishon LeZion
Began1880
Ended1893
קבר הרב רפאל מאיר פאניז'ל, הראשון לציון, בהר הזיתים

Raphael Meir ben Yehuda Panigel (1804–1893) was the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire.

Panigel was born in

hacham bashi (head of the Jewish community of Palestine). He was held in great esteem by all communities and authorities. He authored Lev Marpe (1887), Talmudic novellae, responsa, and homilies.[1] His son-in-law, Yaakov Shaul Elyashar
, later succeeded him.

References

Jewish titles
Preceded by
Abraham Ashkenazi
Rishon le-Zion

Raphael Meir Panigel

1880–1892
Succeeded by
Jacob Saul Elyashar