Jerusalem-born son of the kabbalist Rabbi Efraim HaKohen, a disciple of the Ben Ish Hai. He led the Old City branch of the Porat Yosef yeshiva from 1966 and in 2014 succeeded Hakham Ovadia Yosef as president of the Council of Torah Sages, the spiritual leadership of Shas.
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