Rabbi Moshe (Moses ben Eliyahu) Israel

Son of Rabbi Eliyahu Israel first wife

Served as Rabbi in Rhodes and Jerusalem
Moved to Rhodes when young and became head of the Rabbinic court.
Author of Moshe Yidaber
Moshe (Moses Ben Eliyahu) Israel MyHeritage Family Trees gomel kohan in gomel Web Site, managed by gabriel gomel (Contact) Birth: 1747 - Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire Israel Death: Dec 12 1781 - Rhodes, Greece Parents: אליהו בעל "קול אליהו" Israel, Esther Israel (nacida Cohen (Kohen)) Siblings: Yedidia Shlomo Israel, Mazaltov Israel, מזל טוב Israel, <Private> Israel Wife: ? Israel (nacida Farhi) Wife: Unknown Israel (nacida Farhi) Children: חיים יהודה-haim Yehuda ישראל-israel, David (Ben Moshe Ii) Israel, Unknown Amato (nacida Israel), Unknown Israel, Yedidia Shlomo Israel, <Private> Israel, Unknown Amato (nacida Israel)

1783 Moise Israel came from Safed to Rhodes to be chief rabbi – the beginning of the Israel family rabbinical dynasty there. One of his students, Yedidia Samuel Tarica (born Rhodes, died Jaffa) became the principal dayan; the second dayan named was Moise Israel (born Rhodes 1748, died Rhodes 1782), grandson of the above. This rivalry divided the community into 2 camps, the elder members supporting Tarica (AG VII 88 and 173). Galante writes that Yedidia was blessed with an extraordinary intelligence and had a very strong constitution and that he wrote almost all his books by moonlight [!]. His published works, all in Hebrew, are:Kadosh Yadit, Sefer Halko shel Yedid, Salonika 1805, Sefer Ben Yedit, Salonika 1806 (later referred to as Ben Yedid (AG VII 224), Sefer Amar Yedid..., Salonika 1806, and a collection of sermons in manuscript, Leon Mashabat (AG VII 88 & 173). [21] He carried on a correspondence with Abraham Benezra in Izmir (AG III 11).

About Yedidiah, Rabbi Angel writes: “Following the untimely death of Mosheh Israel II, Rabbi Yedidiah Shemuel Tarica became the community's religious leader[%E2%80%A6]  His wealthy father had supported him for many years so that he could devote full time to his studies. Yedidiah Tarica served as head of the Beth Din in Rhodes for many years without pay, because his father had provided him with adequate funds.  An excellent scholar, Rabbi Tarica authored a number of rabbinic books.  He was succeeded by Rabbi Hayyim Tarsa (d. 1799)” (Angel 73-74). [22]

Source: Sephardic Horizons article "Search of the Family name Tarica" by Ralph Tarcia.

Data from the History of the Rabbis of Rhodes, Rhodes Jewish Museum, accessed July 2020.

Rabbi Moshe Israel from the Tombs of the Rabbis, Rhodes, April 2023.

Moshe Israel, 1781

Translation: Cry and weep with a sorrowful heart for a man who died short of days the years of his life were days of illness with sickness and pain his illness was great and bad it was kept in secret it moved and shifted, he suffered, a judgment was made his days ended taught religion to all the poor was an honest teacher and an expert in his prayers his resting place is in the heavens and his soul in a fertile garden in the shelter of (?) a tombstone for the perfect and wise rabbi the excellent oppressed with days of sufferings, the honorable Rabbi Moshe Israel may his memory live in the world to come, his sunlight darkened on Wednesday 25 of the month of Kislev in the year – Moses the servant of the God, 25 Kislev 5542 – Wednesday 12 December 1781 since the creation of the world. May his soul be bound in the bond of life and he kept [or guarded] Moshe before him.