Career
Native Jew born in Algiers in 1874, Yafil began, as all the musicians of his time, by attending the Moorish cafés of the old Casbah Algiers places where perpetuated the tradition of Çan"a music, also referred to as Andalusian classical music He will collaborate with Jules Rouanet on the catologing of Çan"a music and in theater with Mahieddine Bachtarzi and Ali Sellali. He is buried at the Saint Eugene Cemetery.