Elazar Abuhatzeira

Elazar Abuhatzeira also known as Baba Elazar (9 August 1948 – 28 July 2011) was an Orthodox Sefardi rabbi and kabbalist in Israel.

Born in Rissani, Morocco to Rabbi Meir and Simcha Abuhatzeira, Elazar was the grandson of the Baba Sali, Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, and the brother of Rabbi David Chai Abuhatzeira of Nahariya.

He moved to Israel in 1966 and studied at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva. He later moved to Beersheba where he ran a yeshiva. He practiced a lifestyle characterized by ascetic habits, abstaining from meat and poultry for over three decades due to concerns about dietary laws, limiting his sleep, wearing a cloak that covered his face and prevented him from looking at women, and constructing a tunnel between his home and synagogue to avoid walking in public. In 2011 he had estimated assets of $80 million. By 2004, Bar-Moha claimed that Abuhatzeira's income had grown to NIS 500 million ($141 million at that time). Bar-Moha filed a joint petition with the Progressive Judaism Movement to the Israeli Supreme Court demanding the tax settlement to be cancelled, but the petition was dismissed.

In 2009, a man was indicted for threatening to kill Abuhatzeira, claiming that the rabbi made him a medical promise that had not come true. In 2010, Abuhatzeira was accused by Jews in New York of charging hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for promised miracles that never came to fruition. The prosecutor in Brooklyn subsequently opened an investigation, and Abuhatzeira stopped traveling to the United States as a result. insisting he used his wealth to support the poor. The funeral was held the next day in Jerusalem and was attended by tens of thousands of people, including Israel's chief rabbis, Haredi ministers, and Knesset members. Eulogies were delivered at the Porat Yosef Yeshiva and in the Geula neighborhood. MK Meshulam Nahari asked "who would have thought that... a rabbi could be murdered in Israel?" He is buried on the Mount of Olives. Asher Dahan was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder.