Creator Bio
Chaim Ben-Kiki
1887–1935
A Sephardic intellectual and critic of Western intrusions into the Middle East, Chaim Ben-Kiki was born in Tiberias, the son of the chief rabbi of the Tiberias bet din. He lived and worked his entire life in Tiberias. Little is known about him. Many of his polemics appeared in Do’ar hayom.
Content by Chaim Ben-Kiki
Primary Source
On the Question of All Questions Concerning the Settling of the Land
The Arab Question—with which the youngsters born in this Land have been familiar for many years, and because of which they were subject to disgrace and ridicule by the prominent men within the Yishuv…