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Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (Hebrew: בן ציון מאיר חי עוזיאל; 23 May 1880 – 4 September 1953), sometimes rendered as Ouziel, was the Sephardi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine from 1939 to 1948, and of Israel from 1948 until his death in 1953.