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Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (Hebrew: בן ציון מאיר חי עוזיאל‎, born 1880, died 4 September 1953) was the Sephardi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 to 1954. Ben-Zion was born in Jerusalem, where his father, Joseph Raphael, was the av bet din of …

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