Harari
HARARI
HARARI , family of rabbis from *Aleppo. The founder of the family was moses (d. 1649). isaac ben moses (d. 1810), rabbi of Aleppo and author of Zekhor le-Yi??ak (Leghorn, 1818), died in Safed. nissim ben isaiah (d. 1830), referred to as Rafoul, was the author of Alei Nahar (Jerusalem, 1903). He died in Aleppo. moses ben isaac (d. 1816) was dayyan in Aleppo, emigrated to Ere? Israel, and died in Jerusalem. R. ?ayyim solomon (d. 1888) held the position of *?akham Bashi in *Damascus at the end of the 19th century. During the 20th century shalom (selim; d. 1938), who was born in *Jaffa, achieved distinction. He studied law in Constantinople and after the revolution of the Young Turks, he was appointed judge in *Beirut and later was member of the Court of Appeals in Jerusalem. After the occupation of *Lebanon by the French, he lived there and practiced law. In the 1930s he became president of the Jewish community of Beirut, where he died.
[Haim J. Cohen]