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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