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Yitzhak Ben-Hezekiah Yosef Kovo (1770–1854) was born in the large Sephardi community of Ottoman Salonica and later settled in Ottoman-era Jerusalem. In 1848 he succeeded Chaim Abraham Gagin as hacham bashi aged 78. Throughout his career he went on fundraising missions to Poland, London and Egypt. In 1854, while in Alexandria, he died. He authored many works on the Mishnah, Talmud and Shulchan Aruch and wrote responsa.

Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Mandatory Palestine and Ottoman Palestine

Chief Rabbis of
Old Yishuv
(Ottoman Jerusalem)

Rishon L'Tzion

Moshe ben Yonatan Galante (1665–1689)
Moshe ibn Habib (1689–1696)
Moshe Hayun
Avraham Yitzhaki [he] (1715–1722)
Binyamin Maali [he]
Elazar Nahum [he] (1730–1748)
Nissim Mizrahi [he] (1748–1754)
Yitzhak Rapaport [he] (?–?)
Israel Yaakov Algazi (1754–1756)
Raphael Meyuchas ben Shmuel (1756–1771)
Haim ben Asher (1771–1772)
Yom Tov Algazy (1772–1802)
Moshe Yosef Mordechai Meyuchas (1802–1805)
Yaakov Aish (1806–1817)
Yaakov Coral (1817–1819)
Yosef Hazzan (1819–1822)
Yom Tov Danon (1822–1824)
Shlomo Suzin (1824–1836)
Yonah Navon (1836–1841)
Yehuda Navon (1841–1842)

Hakham Bashi
(1842–1918)

Chief Rabbis of
New Yishuv
(Mandatory Palestine)

Acting Chief Rabbi	Haim Moshe Elyashar (1918–1921)
Ashkenazi	Abraham Isaac Kook (1921–1935) Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1936–1948)
Sephardi	Yaakov Meir (1921–1939) Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1939–1948)

Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (1948–1959)
Isser Yehuda Unterman (1964–1973)
Shlomo Goren (1973–1983)
Avraham Shapira (1983–1993)
Yisrael Meir Lau (1993–2003)
Yona Metzger (2003–2013)

Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1948–1953)
Yitzhak Nissim (1955–1973)
Ovadia Yosef (1973–1983)
Mordechai Eliyahu (1983–1993)
Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (1993–2003)
Shlomo Amar (2003–2013)
Yitzhak Yosef (2013–2024)

Chief Rabbinate Council
(current as of 2008)

Permanent	Yona Metzger Shlomo Amar Yisrael Meir Lau Shlomo Chelouche She'ar Yashuv Cohen
Ashkenazi	Aryeh Stern Yaakov Shapira Yitzchak Dovid Grossman Yosef Glicksburg Yaakov Roja Yitzhak Ralbag
Sephardi	Shimon Elituv Avraham Yosef Ratzon Arusi Shmuel Eliyahu Yitzhak Peretz

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