Yitzhak Kovo

Yitzhak Ben-Hezekiah Yosef Kovo (1770–1854) was born in the large Sephardi communityofOttoman Salonica and later settled in Jerusalem. In 1848, he succeeded Chaim Abraham Gaginashacham bashi aged 78. Throughout his career he went on fundraising missions to Poland, London and Egypt. In 1854, he died while in Alexandria. He authored many works on the Mishnah, Talmud and Shulchan Aruch and wrote responsa.