Rabbi Raphael Aharon ben Shimon was born in Rabat 1848 and died in 1928 in Tel Aviv. At young ‎age was appointed to serve as the secretary to his father’s court in Jerusalem. He travelled as an ‎emissary to Germany and France on behalf of the yeshivah Doresh Zion in Jerusalem, but upon the ‎death of his father, he was appointed emissary on behalf of the board of the Morocco ‎Community in Jerusalem. He used this as an opportunity to gather and published the writing of ‎Moroccan Jewry. Later he was appointed as Chief Rabbi (Hakham Bashi) in Egypt (1891-1921). His final ‎years were spent in Tel Aviv as Judge. ‎
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