Yehuda Benasouli

Rabbi Yehuda Benasouli (; 1933 – 31 May 2010) was a Moroccan-born Orthodox Jewish rabbi. Benasouli served as the Chief Rabbi of Madrid from 1978 until 1997.

Early life and education Benasouli was born in 1933 into a Sephardic Jewish family in Alcazarquivir (Ksar el-Kebir) in what was then Spanish Morocco.

Benasouli's father died when he was young, and Benasouli's uncle Rabbi Yaakov Sebag took responsibility for him. He enrolled in a yeshiva in Meknes to study under Rabbi Raphael Baruch Toledano, a scion of the prominent Sephardic Toledano family. At the age of 18, Benasouli was ordained by Toledano. Benasouli served as a mohel (circumciser), shochet (ritual slaughterer), and mashgiach (kosher supervisor) in the community. In 1978, he became the community's chief rabbi,

In 1997, Moroccan-born Moshe Bendahan succeeded Benasouli as Chief Rabbi of Madrid.

Death Benasouli died on 31 May 2010. He is buried in the Ponevezh cemetery in Bnei Brak, Israel, near his mentor Toledano.