Ḥayim Daṿid Ḥazan

Chaim David Hazan (; 1790 – January 17, 1869) nicknamed Chad Badara was an Av Beit Din in İzmir, rabbinical scholar, and Rishon LeZion of Israel.

Early life and formative years Born in İzmir to Sephardic Rabbi Raphael Yosef Hazan, son of Chaim, and Reina Falaji, Hazan learned the profession of shochet from a young age. His father was a chief rabbi in the city and considered a great sage of the 19th century. By the time he had grown into adulthood, he was chosen as the head of the shochets in the area. By 1840, he was appointed to a head position in the city's rabbi community, a position he held until 1855.

Emigration to Israel and career In 1855, he immigrated to Eretz Yisroel and settled in Jerusalem, where he was appointed to the Beit Din alongside Moshe Benvenisti, Yitzhak Cordoviro, Yitzhak Kalmaro, and Avraham Amar. In 1859, he went on a mission with five other rabbis from Jerusalem to Vienna, but he fell ill and returned home. In 1861, Rabbi Chaim Nissim Abulafia died, and Hazan was elected to take his place in the rabbinate as the Chief Sephardi Rabbi in Israel, as well as Hakham Bashi of Jerusalem, and the two roles were united for the region with his election. He worked extensively for the agricultural settlements in the land, and he worked in close proximity with Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, to which the two decided on planting willow trees in the settlement of Kfar Hashiloah.

He resided in the Mishkenot Sha'ananim neighborhood, the first Jewish settlement outside of the walled limits of the city. When the 1863-1875 cholera pandemic reached Jerusalem in 1865, he moved inside the walls to share in the city's grief. He died on January 17, 1869 and is buried at the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery.

Family Hazan was initially married to Joya Esther, daughter of Yisrael Chaim HaCohen Hamzi. She died in 1862, and he remarried in his final years to a woman named Sultana. He had an older brother, Rabbi , as well as brothers and Yitzhak Hazan. Aharon di Yosef Hazan, writer and editor of Ladino newspapers in İzmir Rachel, wife of Rabbi Bechor Chaim Yitzhak Nachum (1834–1896) Israel Sheikh Hazan (1835–1896) Moshe Hazan Sarah (m. Joseph Raphael Uziel) Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel

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