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Rabbi Eliahu Pardess, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Dies at Age 80

March 27, 1972
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Rabbi Eliahu Pardess, the Sephardic. Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, died here today at the age of 80. Rabbi Pardess was born in Jerusalem and attended the Rabbinical College and the Hebrew University here. He was elected Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem in 1960. Since 1961 he was headmaster of the Metivtah Yeshiva. He was a member of the executive committee of the World Federation of Sephardic Communities, a member of the Israeli Council on Religious Education and chairman of the Association of Sephardic Rabbis in Israel.

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