Raphael Meir Panigel
title: "Raphael Meir Panigel" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["19th-century-rabbis-in-jerusalem", "rishon-lezion-(rabbi)", "sephardi-rabbis-from-ottoman-palestine", "people-from-pazardzhik", "1804-births", "1893-deaths", "shelichei-derabonan-(rabbis)"] topic_path: "people/1800s" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Meir_Panigel" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Raphael Meir Panigel |
| רפאל מאיר פאניז'ל | |
| image | Raphael Meir Panigel.jpg |
| image_size | 260px |
| caption | Raphael Meir Panigel |
| organisationposition | Rishon LeZion |
| began | 1880 |
| ended | 1893 |
| predecessor | Avraham Ashkenazi |
| successor | Yaakov Shaul Elyashar |
| other_post | |
| birth_date | 1804 |
| birth_place | Pazardzhik, Ottoman Bulgaria |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire |
| children | Vida Leah Eliashar, Yehudah Shlomo Panigel, Siniora Miriam Eliashar (biological), Yehuda Bechar, Eliahu Moshe Bechar Panigel (adoptive), possibly other |
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Raphael Meir ben Yehuda Panigel (; 1804–1893) was the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem during the reign of the Ottoman Empire.
Panigel was born in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, but his family emigrated to the Land of Israel when he was a child. In 1828 and in 1863, he was an emissary on behalf of Jerusalem to the countries of North Africa, remaining there on both occasions for several years. In 1845 he travelled to Italy as an emissary of Hebron and was received with great respect at the Vatican by Pope Gregory XVI. In 1880 he became rishon le-Zion, and in 1890 the Ottoman authorities appointed him 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. His son-in-law, Yaakov Shaul Elyashar, later succeeded him.
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References
- (2007). "Encyclopaedia Judaica". Macmillan Reference USA in association with the Keter Pub. House.
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