Simeon ben Zemah Duran, (Hebrew: שמעון בן צמח דוראן), known as Rashbaz (רשב"ץ) or Tashbaz was a Rabbinical authority, student of philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and especially of medicine, which he practised for a number of years at Palma de Majorca. He was a near relation but not a grandson of Levi ben Gershon, a student of Ephraim Vidal, and of Jonah de Maestre, rabbi in Zaragoza or in Calatayud, whose daughter Bongoda he married. After the persecution of 1391, he fled Spain with his father and sister, for Algiers, where, in addition to practicing medicine, he continued his studies. In 1394 he and the Algerian rabbi, Isaac ben Sheshet (known as Rivash) drafted statutes for the Jewish community of Algiers. After the Rivash's retirement, Duran became rabbi of Algiers in 1407. He held this office until his death whereupon his son Solomon ben Simon Duran succeeded him.
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