Ya'akov Moshe Toledano

Yaakov Moshe Toledano (Hebrew יעקב משה טולדאנו; * 1880 in Tiberias, Ottoman Empire, † October 15, 1960 in Israel) was an Israeli rabbi and politician.

Life

After his education, he graduated in his home town of a rabbi training. 1903 moved his family to a cholera epidemic to Corsica. At the beginning of the First World War he had together with other 700 Jews leave Corsica and then worked as a rabbi in Malta. Later Toledano was then as Chief Rabbi of Cairo and Alexandria. In 1942 he settled in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and worked until his death as a Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Tel Aviv. Although he was not a Member of the Knesset, Toledano was appointed on December 3, 1958 Minister of Religion and led this office until November 1959. When David Ben- Gurion, a new government introduced on 17 December 1959, he returned as Minister of Religion and held that post until his death.

Family

Toledano came from a family of Moroccan Jews in Meknes who settled in Tiberias .. Toledano father Judah had immigrated from Morocco. The name means TOLEDANO arise in Toledo. The family was expelled from Spain in 1492 to settle down Salonika in Greece.