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David ben Shimon
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “rabbi who headed the north african jewish community of jerusalem in the old yishuv and established the neighbou”. Today it says “rabbi who headed the north african jewish community of jerusalem in the old yishuv”.
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David ben Shimon ( Hebrew : דוד בן שמעון , Arabic : داود بن شمعون ) also known as Tzuf Devash and the Radvash (1826 – 5 December 1879) was a rabbi who headed the North African Jewish community of Jerusalem in the Old Yishuv . Ben Shimon established Mahane Israel , one of the early neighborhoods outside the Old City walls. مكاريوس, شاهين (1904).
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rabbi who headed the north african jewish community of jerusalem in the old yishuv and established the neighbou
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rabbi who headed the north african jewish community of jerusalem in the old yishuv
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