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Tributes to former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel who is victim of coronavirus

Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron died on Sunday as Israel's toll from coronavirus climbed to over 100 during Pesach

April 13, 2020 11:40
Precautions were taken as Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who died of coronavirus, was buried at Jerusalem's Har HaMenuchot cemetery on Sunday
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The head of London’s Sephardi community has paid tribute to the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Eliyahu Bakshi Doron, who died on Sunday five days after testing positive for coronavirus.

Rabbi Joseph Dweck, senior rabbi of the S & P Sephardi Community said his death was “a terrible loss for all of Klal Yisrael, of great a talmid hacham [Torah scholar] and Jewish leader.”

He was a “close friend of my father-in-law, Dayan Ezra Bar Shalom and a student of my grandfather in law, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

“It is particularly painful and felt among Sephardi Jewry as he was a luminary, guide and role model to so many.