Background
He was taken by his father Eliezer Hazan to Jerusalem (1811), where he was educated under his grandfather, Joseph ben Hayyim Hazan.
He was taken by his father Eliezer Hazan to Jerusalem (1811), where he was educated under his grandfather, Joseph ben Hayyim Hazan.
While at Rome he was elected chief rabbi. In 1852 he resigned this office for the rabbinate of Corfu, and in 1857 he was called to the rabbinate of Alexandria. In 1862 he went to Jaffa.
But, being in ill health, he removed to Beirut, where he died.
He was buried in Sidon. In Rome and in Corfu he was held in high esteem, and the poet Ludwig August von Frankl, who saw him in Corfu (1856), speaks in glowing terms of his venerable personality.
He wrote a letter condemning the reforms advocated in the Brunswick rabbinical conference (published in the collection "Kin"at Tziyyon," Amsterdam, 1846).
In 1840 he became a member of a rabbinical college. In 1848 he was appointed "meshullach" (messenger).