ABSTRACT
Eliyahu Bechor Hazan (c. 1845–1908), the grandson of Hayim David Hazan, immigrated to Jerusalem from Turkey with his grandfather in 1855. He served as the Hacham Bashi of Tripoli (1874–1888) and chief rabbi of Alexandria (1888–1908). On January 1866 Hayim David Hazan published his approval (haskama) of the responsum of Eliyahu Bechor Hazan, translated below, and included it in his published book Nediv Lev. During his rabbinic career Eliyahu Hazan followed his grandfather’s steps in advocating secular and religious education for boys and girls and promoting communal solidarity. During his tenure in Tripoli and Alexandria, he dedicated much of his efforts to providing religious and secular education to the poor so that they would not avail themselves of Christian missionary education. He thought that settlement in Eretz Israel would solve many of the issues of unity, solidarity, pauperism, and conversion. 2
