Yakir Gueron or Preciado Gueron (1813 – February 4, 1874 in

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) was a Turkish

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. He was the sixth rabbi of

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descended from the Gueron family. He became rabbi in 1835 at the age of twenty-two, and eleven years later met

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Abd al-Majid, whom he induced to restore the privileges formerly conceded to the non-Muslim communities. Gueron, with the rabbis of

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and

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, was made an arbitrator in a rabbinical controversy at Constantinople, and was chosen acting chief rabbi of the Turkish capital in 1863. Both

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and his successor Abdülaziz conferred decorations upon him. Gueron resigned his office in 1872, and proceeded to Jerusalem, where he died two years later.

References

*Singer, Isidore and Abraham Danon.
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''. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901-1906, citing: :*''Ha-Lebanon'', x., No. 30. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gueron, Yakir 1813 births 1874 deaths Chief rabbis of the Ottoman Empire 19th-century rabbis from the Ottoman Empire Sephardi rabbis in Ottoman Palestine