Israel & Palestine
Bio
Birth date: September 12, 1889
Birth location: Rissani, Morocco
Passing date: January 8, 1984 (at 94)
Passing location: Netivot, Israel
Religion: Judaism
Commemorative festival: January 8
Memorable facts:
Honored as a major Moroccan sephardic rabbi and kabbalist
Known though officially as Rabbi Israel Abuhatzeira primarily as the Baba Sali (the “Praying Father”)
Joined following his bar mitzvah his family’s yeshiva (religious school) where students performed spiritual practices from midnight until dawn
Venerated here
saint
Yisrael Abuhatzeira, known as the Baba Sali, a leading Moroccan Sephardic rabbi and kabbalist renowned for working miracles through his prayers.[1] His burial place in Netivot, Israel, has become a shrine for petitioners.[1]
On the same road
