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Rishon le-Zion

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Rishon le-Zion (Heb., ‘First of Zion’). Hebrew title of the Sephardi head of the rabbis of Israel. From 1920, the Rishon le-Zion was given the additional title of hakham bashi (Chief Rabbi) of Erez Israel.

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