Yakir Gueron or Preciado Gueron (1813 – February 4, 1874 in

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. He was the sixth rabbi of

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descended from the Gueron family. He became rabbi in 1835 at the age of twenty-two, and eleven years later met

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Abd al-Majid, whom he induced to restore the privileges formerly conceded to the non-Muslim communities. Gueron, with the rabbis of

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and

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, was made an arbitrator in a rabbinical controversy at Constantinople, and was chosen acting chief rabbi of the Turkish capital in 1863. Both

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and his successor

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conferred decorations upon him. Gueron resigned his office in 1872, and proceeded to Jerusalem, where he died two years later.

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