Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States - Revision history

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 ! Name !! Location !! Affiliation / brief biography
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-| [[Alexander Machkevich]] (Founding Patron) || Kazakhstan / Israel || Kazakh-Israeli billionaire philanthropist; founded the Kazakhstan Jewish Congress and led the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress; major funder of synagogues (including Chabad) and interfaith projects across Central Asia.<ref name="MashkevichJPost" />
+| [[Alexander Machkevich]] (Founding Patron) || Kazakhstan / Israel || Kazakh-Israeli billionaire philanthropist; founded the [[Kazakhstan Jewish Congress]] and led the [[Euro-Asian Jewish Congress]]; major funder of synagogues (including Chabad) and interfaith projects across Central Asia.<ref name="MashkevichJPost" />
 |-
-| [[Carole Basri]] || USA || American lawyer and documentary filmmaker of Iraqi Jewish (Sephardi/Mizrahi) descent; focuses on the history and archives of Middle Eastern Jewry; former member of the U.S. State Department’s Future of Iraq Project and Coalition Provisional Authority.<ref name="BasriWiki">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Basri Carole Basri] biographical overview; see also contemporaneous reporting on her Iraqi Jewish archive and legal work.</ref>
+| [[Carole Basri]] || USA || American lawyer and documentary filmmaker of Iraqi Jewish (Sephardi/'Mizrahi') descent; focuses on the history and archives of Middle Eastern Jewry; former member of the U.S. State Department’s [[Future of Iraq Project]] and [[Coalition Provisional Authority]].<ref name="BasriWiki">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Basri Carole Basri] biographical overview; see also contemporaneous reporting on her Iraqi Jewish archive and legal work.</ref>
 |-
 | [[Daniel Berkove]] || Israel || Israeli-based business consultant (energy sector); board member of Innovation: Africa and the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States; producer of the “Blessing Israel” anti-antisemitism music video collaboration.<ref name="BerkoveLehrhaus">[https://thelehrhaus.com/author/dberkove/ Daniel R. Berkove] author profile, ''The Lehrhaus''.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Avraham Berkowitz]] || US || Senior [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] emissary; former executive director of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC); alternate Chabad NGO delegate at the United Nations; director of special missions for Chabad Headquarters.<ref name="BerkowitzJTA">[https://www.jta.org/archive/head-of-chabad-led-federation-steps-down-from-moscow-post Head of Chabad-led Federation Steps Down from Moscow Post] ''Jewish Telegraphic Agency'', 2008; see also Chabad.org profiles of his FJC and UN roles.</ref>
+| [[Avraham Berkowitz]] || US || Senior [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] emissary; former executive director of the [[Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS]] (FJC); alternate Chabad NGO delegate at the United Nations; director of special missions for Chabad Headquarters.<ref name="BerkowitzJTA">[https://www.jta.org/archive/head-of-chabad-led-federation-steps-down-from-moscow-post Head of Chabad-led Federation Steps Down from Moscow Post] ''Jewish Telegraphic Agency'', 2008; see also Chabad.org profiles of his FJC and UN roles.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Nir Boms]] || Israel || Israeli academic and research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University; specialises in regional cooperation, Syria and the Abraham Accords; director of the TAU Workshop on Israel and the Middle East.<ref name="BomsBio">[https://nirboms.com/about-me/ Biography – Nir Boms] ''nirboms.com''.</ref>
+| [[Nir Boms]] || Israel || Israeli academic and research fellow at the [[Moshe Dayan Center]], [[Tel Aviv University]]; specialises in regional cooperation, Syria and the Abraham Accords; director of the TAU Workshop on Israel and the Middle East.<ref name="BomsBio">[https://nirboms.com/about-me/ Biography – Nir Boms] ''nirboms.com''.</ref>
 |-
 | [[Sandra Dangoor]] || UK || UK-based philanthropist / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />

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 ===Advisory Board===
-The Advisory Board comprises a mix of philanthropists, communal activists, academics and Chabad figures rather than a single denominational bloc. Founding Patron [[Alexander Machkevich]] (also spelled Mashkevich), the late Kazakh-Israeli billionaire, founded the [[Kazakhstan Jewish Congress]] and led the [[Euro-Asian Jewish Congress]]; he was a major funder of synagogues (including Chabad institutions) and interfaith projects across Central Asia. Rabbi [[Avraham Berkowitz]] is a senior Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who previously directed the Chabad-dominated [[Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS]] and has served as an alternate Chabad NGO delegate at the United Nations. Rabbi [[Levi Matusof]] (Paris) is likewise a Chabad representative, linked to the long-standing Matusof family of Chabad shluchim in Morocco and France. [[Carole Basri]] is an American lawyer and filmmaker of Iraqi Jewish (Sephardi/'Mizrahi') descent, focused on the history and archives of Middle Eastern Jewry rather than any particular Orthodox stream. [[Nir Boms]] is an Israeli academic specialising in regional cooperation and the [[Abraham Accords]]. The remaining members—[[Daniel Berkove]], [[Sandra Dangoor]], [[Brigitte Dayan]], [[Jason Epstein]], [[Eli Ovits]], [[Joy Malka Rothenberg]], [[Daniel Seal]], [[Tuli Skaist]], [[Leizer Schiner]] and [[Efrat Sopher]]—are drawn largely from professional, philanthropic and interfaith networks in the United States, Israel, the UK and the UAE, spanning mainstream Orthodox, Sephardi and non-denominational Jewish communal circles.
+Founding Patron: [[Alexander Machkevich]] (also spelled Mashkevich; Kazakhstan / Israel; d. 2025).<ref name="MashkevichJPost">[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-847423 Israeli-Kazakh billionaire Alexander Mashkevich dies at 72] ''The Jerusalem Post'', 24 March 2025. Founder of the Kazakhstan Jewish Congress and former president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress; major funder of synagogues (including Chabad institutions) and interfaith projects.</ref>
 {| class="wikitable"
-! Name !! Location / Affiliation
+! Name !! Location !! Affiliation / brief biography
 |-
-| [[Carole Basri]] || USA
+| [[Carole Basri]] || USA || American lawyer and documentary filmmaker of Iraqi Jewish (Sephardi/Mizrahi) descent; focuses on the history and archives of Middle Eastern Jewry; former member of the U.S. State Department’s Future of Iraq Project and Coalition Provisional Authority.<ref name="BasriWiki">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Basri Carole Basri] biographical overview; see also contemporaneous reporting on her Iraqi Jewish archive and legal work.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Daniel Berkove]] || Israel
+| [[Daniel Berkove]] || Israel || Israeli-based business consultant (energy sector); board member of Innovation: Africa and the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States; producer of the “Blessing Israel” anti-antisemitism music video collaboration.<ref name="BerkoveLehrhaus">[https://thelehrhaus.com/author/dberkove/ Daniel R. Berkove] author profile, ''The Lehrhaus''.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Avraham Berkowitz]] || US
+| [[Avraham Berkowitz]] || US || Senior [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] emissary; former executive director of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC); alternate Chabad NGO delegate at the United Nations; director of special missions for Chabad Headquarters.<ref name="BerkowitzJTA">[https://www.jta.org/archive/head-of-chabad-led-federation-steps-down-from-moscow-post Head of Chabad-led Federation Steps Down from Moscow Post] ''Jewish Telegraphic Agency'', 2008; see also Chabad.org profiles of his FJC and UN roles.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Nir Boms]] || Israel
+| [[Nir Boms]] || Israel || Israeli academic and research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University; specialises in regional cooperation, Syria and the Abraham Accords; director of the TAU Workshop on Israel and the Middle East.<ref name="BomsBio">[https://nirboms.com/about-me/ Biography – Nir Boms] ''nirboms.com''.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Sandra Dangoor]] || UK
+| [[Sandra Dangoor]] || UK || UK-based philanthropist / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |-
-| [[Brigitte Dayan]] || USA
+| [[Brigitte Dayan]] || USA || US-based professional / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |-
-| [[Jason Epstein]] || USA
+| [[Jason Epstein]] || USA || US-based professional / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |-
-| [[Levi Matusof]] || Paris
+| [[Levi Matusof]] || Paris || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] representative in Paris; linked to the long-standing Matusof family of Chabad shluchim (including the pioneering Moroccan emissary Rabbi Shlomo Matusof).<ref name="MatusofFamily">Chabad.org coverage of the Matusof family of shluchim in Morocco and France; see e.g. obituaries and profiles of Rabbi Shlomo Matusof and descendants active in Paris and Cannes.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Eli Ovits]] || Israel
+| [[Eli Ovits]] || Israel || Israel-based professional / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |-
-| [[Joy Malka Rothenberg]] || Israel
+| [[Joy Malka Rothenberg]] || Israel || Israel-based professional / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |-
-| [[Daniel Seal]] || UAE
+| [[Daniel Seal]] || UAE || UAE-based professional / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |-
-| [[Tuli Skaist]] || USA
+| [[Tuli Skaist]] || USA || US-based professional / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |-
-| [[Leizer Schiner]] || USA
+| [[Leizer Schiner]] || USA || US-based professional / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |-
-| [[Efrat Sopher]] || London
+| [[Efrat Sopher]] || London || London-based professional / communal figure (listed on ARIS Advisory Board).<ref name="Advisory" />
 |}

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 | [[Levi Duchman]] || Executive Board || Rabbi of the UAE || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]<ref name="DuchmanUAE">Chabad emissary and first resident chief rabbi of the UAE; see [https://chabad.ae/about-us/ Chabad of the UAE] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Duchman Levi Duchman] biographical coverage.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Chaim Hilel Azimow]] || Observer || Rabbi of North Cyprus || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]-aligned (ARIS network / North Cyprus posting)
+| [[Chaim Hilel Azimow]] || Observer || Rabbi of North Cyprus || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]<ref name="AzimovChabad2008">Tamar Runyan, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/665942/jewish/New-Chabad-House-Brings-Passover-to-Northern-Cyprus.htm New Chabad House Brings Passover to Northern Cyprus] ''Chabad.org'', 23 April 2008. Identifies Rabbi Chaim Hillel Azimov as “the newly arrived co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of North Cyprus”.</ref><ref name="AzimovChabad2009">Dan Webber, [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/995142/jewish/Community-Grows-in-North-Cyprus.htm North Cyprus Jewish Center Caters to Growing Community] ''Chabad.org'', 23 September 2009. Describes him as “Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Chaim and Devora Azimov” who opened the centre.</ref><ref name="AzimovChabadLocator">[https://www.chabad.org/jewish-centers/648321/karaoglanoglu/Synagogue/Chabad-Lubavitch-of-North-Cyprus Chabad-Lubavitch of North Cyprus] ''Chabad.org'' locator. Lists Rabbi Chaim Hillel Azimov as Co-director.</ref>
 |}

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 By contrast, the Executive Board and operational membership are dominated by Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries (shluchim). Explicitly identified Chabad rabbis include Chairman [[Mendy Chitrik]] (Istanbul), [[Levi Banon]] (Casablanca), [[Levi Duchman]] (UAE), [[Yeshaya Cohen]] (Kazakhstan) and [[Shneor Segal]] (Azerbaijan); numerous additional members serving in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, Uganda, Uzbekistan and the UAE are likewise drawn from the Chabad network. Overall, Chabadniks constitute a clear majority of the active rabbinic membership, while the higher advisory layer retains a stronger Sephardi and non-Chabad Orthodox presence.
 {| class="wikitable"
-! Name !! Role / Position !! Location / Notes
+! Name !! Role / Position !! Location / Notes !! Affiliation
 |-
-| [[Yitzhak Yosef]] || Chief Sephardi Rabbi (halachic guidance) || Israel (Rishon LeZion)
+| [[Yitzhak Yosef]] || Chief Sephardi Rabbi (halachic guidance) || Israel (Rishon LeZion) || Sephardi Orthodox / Israeli Chief Rabbinate (Rishon LeZion)
 |-
-| [[Shimon Gad Elituv]] || Presidium Council || Member of the Council of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate
+| [[Shimon Gad Elituv]] || Presidium Council || Member of the Council of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate || Israeli Chief Rabbinate / mainstream Orthodox
 |-
-| [[David Rafael Banon]] || Presidium Council || Montreal Bet Din
+| [[David Rafael Banon]] || Presidium Council || Montreal Bet Din || Sephardi / Orthodox (Montreal Bet Din)
 |-
-| [[Haim Bitan]] || Presidium Council || Chief Rabbi of Tunisia
+| [[Haim Bitan]] || Presidium Council || Chief Rabbi of Tunisia || Sephardi / traditional Tunisian Jewish community
 |-
-| [[Isak Haleva]] || Presidium Council (Hahambashi) || Chief Rabbi of Turkey
+| [[Isak Haleva]] || Presidium Council (Hahambashi) || Chief Rabbi of Turkey || Sephardi / traditional Turkish Jewish community (Hahambashi)
 |-
-| [[Gad Bouskila]] || Presidium Council || Rabbi of Netivot Yisrael Moroccan community of NY
+| [[Gad Bouskila]] || Presidium Council || Rabbi of Netivot Yisrael Moroccan community of NY || Sephardi / Moroccan Orthodox
 |-
-| [[Mendy Chitrik]] || Chairman, Executive Board || Rabbi of Ashkenazi community of Istanbul, Turkey
+| [[Mendy Chitrik]] || Chairman, Executive Board || Rabbi of Ashkenazi community of Istanbul, Turkey || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]<ref name="ChitrikChabad">Described as belonging to the Chabad movement and as Chabad emissary / shliach in Istanbul; see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendy_Chitrik Mendy Chitrik] biographical coverage and Chabad.org / JTA reporting on his role.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Yeshaya Cohen]] || Executive Board || Chief Rabbi of Kazakhstan
+| [[Yeshaya Cohen]] || Executive Board || Chief Rabbi of Kazakhstan || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]<ref name="CohenKZ">Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Kazakhstan and chief rabbi since 1994; see [https://crownheights.info/chabad-news/877240/80-years-after-mystics-passing-in-kazakh-exile-his-legacy-lives-on/ CrownHeights.info] and Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS reporting.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Shneor Segal]] || Executive Board || Chief Rabbi of Azerbaijan Ashkenazi community
+| [[Shneor Segal]] || Executive Board || Chief Rabbi of Azerbaijan Ashkenazi community || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]<ref name="SegalAZ">Chabad emissary since 2002 and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Azerbaijan; see [https://chabadbaku.com/en/about/ Chabad of Baku] and [https://www.jns.org/a-place-to-walk-proudly-as-a-jew/ JNS] profile.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Levi Banon]] || Executive Board || Chabad Community Rabbi of Casablanca, Morocco
+| [[Levi Banon]] || Executive Board || Chabad Community Rabbi of Casablanca, Morocco || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]] (explicitly listed as Chabad Community Rabbi on ARIS site)
 |-
-| [[Yisrael Uzan]] || Executive Board || Chief Rabbi of Nigeria
+| [[Yisrael Uzan]] || Executive Board || Chief Rabbi of Nigeria || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]<ref name="UzanNigeria">Co-director of Chabad Lubavitch of Nigeria; see [https://www.jns.org/opinion/rabbi-israel-uzan/deconstructing-misconceptions-about-nigeria-and-life-in-africa JNS] and Chabad.org coverage of Chabad of Nigeria.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Levi Duchman]] || Executive Board || Rabbi of the UAE
+| [[Levi Duchman]] || Executive Board || Rabbi of the UAE || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]<ref name="DuchmanUAE">Chabad emissary and first resident chief rabbi of the UAE; see [https://chabad.ae/about-us/ Chabad of the UAE] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Duchman Levi Duchman] biographical coverage.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Chaim Hilel Azimow]] || Observer || Rabbi of North Cyprus
+| [[Chaim Hilel Azimow]] || Observer || Rabbi of North Cyprus || [[Chabad-Lubavitch]]-aligned (ARIS network / North Cyprus posting)
 |}

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 | purpose            = Support Jewish life and rabbis in predominantly Muslim countries and regions
 | headquarters       = 1035 14th Street, Miami Beach, FL 33139, United States
-| region_served      = Muslim-majority countries and regions
+| area_served      = Muslim-majority countries and regions
 | membership         = Approximately 40 rabbis
 | language           = English, Arabic, others

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 | name               = Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States
 | abbreviation       = ARIS
-| formation          = September 2019
+| founded          = September 2019; Incorporated 8 October 2020
 | type               = Nonprofit / Religious organisation
 | registration_id    = Florida N20000011307; EIN 85-3435240

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 | language           = English, Arabic, others
 | leader_title       = Chairman
-| leader_name        = [[Mendy Chitrik]]
+| founder        = [[Mendy Chitrik]]
 | website            = [https://www.rabbisalliance.org rabbisalliance.org]
 }}

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 {| class="wikitable"
-! Name !! Role / Position !! Location
+! Name !! Role / Position !! Location !! Affiliation
 |-
-| [[Yoel Kaplan]] || Chief Rabbi of Kosovo and Albania || Kosovo / Albania
+| [[Yoel Kaplan]] || Chief Rabbi of Kosovo and Albania || Kosovo / Albania || Chabad-Lubavitch<ref name="KaplanChabad">Chabad.org and contemporary reports identify Kaplan as Chabad-Lubavitch emissary and Chief Rabbi of Albania; see e.g. [https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1381972/jewish/Albania-Installs-Chief-Rabbi.htm Balkan Nation Installs First Chief Rabbi] ''Chabad.org'', 2010.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Mendy Leichter]] || Rabbi of Sumqayit || Azerbaijan
+| [[Mendy Leichter]] || Rabbi of Sumqayit || Azerbaijan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Nachshon Yunaev]] || Rabbi for Youth Activities || Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan
+| [[Nachshon Yunaev]] || Rabbi for Youth Activities || Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Mati Lewis]] || Rabbi || Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan
+| [[Mati Lewis]] || Rabbi || Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Pesah Mirov]] || Rabbi || Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan
+| [[Pesah Mirov]] || Rabbi || Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Shneor Elimelech]] || Rabbi || Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan
+| [[Shneor Elimelech]] || Rabbi || Jewish community of Baku, Azerbaijan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Dan Krichevsky]] || Chief Rabbi || Russia Republic of Bashkortostan
+| [[Dan Krichevsky]] || Chief Rabbi || Russia Republic of Bashkortostan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Avraham Dayan]] || Formerly Rabbi || Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt
+| [[Avraham Dayan]] || Formerly Rabbi || Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt || Local Egyptian / Sephardi
 |-
-| [[Yehud Gerami]] || Chief Rabbi of Iran || Iran
+| [[Yehud Gerami]] || Chief Rabbi of Iran || Iran || Local Persian Jewish / Orthodox (trained at Ner Israel and Israeli yeshivas)<ref name="Gerami">Yehuda Gerami profile and reports; see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Gerami Yehuda Gerami] and contemporaneous coverage of Iranian Jewish leadership.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Eliyahu Saidiyan]] || Chief Rabbi of Isfahan || Iran
+| [[Eliyahu Saidiyan]] || Chief Rabbi of Isfahan || Iran || Local Persian Jewish / Orthodox
 |-
-| [[Shimon Ash]] || Rabbi of Pavlodar || Kazakhstan
+| [[Shimon Ash]] || Rabbi of Pavlodar || Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Asaf Feinstein]] || Rabbi of Ust'-Kamenogorsk || Kazakhstan
+| [[Asaf Feinstein]] || Rabbi of Ust'-Kamenogorsk || Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Shevach Zaltopolsky]] || Rabbi || Almaty, Kazakhstan
+| [[Shevach Zaltopolsky]] || Rabbi || Almaty, Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Elchanan Cohen]] || Chief Rabbi of Almaty || Kazakhstan
+| [[Elchanan Cohen]] || Chief Rabbi of Almaty || Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Mendel Zalmanov]] || Rabbi of Kostanay || Kazakhstan
+| [[Mendel Zalmanov]] || Rabbi of Kostanay || Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Mordechai Morosow]] || Rabbi of Shymkent || Kazakhstan
+| [[Mordechai Morosow]] || Rabbi of Shymkent || Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Saadia Liberow]] || Rabbi || Almaty, Kazakhstan
+| [[Saadia Liberow]] || Rabbi || Almaty, Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Asher Tumarkin]] || Rabbi of Karganda || Kazakhstan
+| [[Asher Tumarkin]] || Rabbi of Karganda || Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Shmuel Karnaukh]] || Rabbi of Nursultan || Kazakhstan
+| [[Shmuel Karnaukh]] || Rabbi of Nursultan || Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Mordechai Cohen]] || Rabbi || Almaty, Kazakhstan
+| [[Mordechai Cohen]] || Rabbi || Almaty, Kazakhstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Arie Reichman]] || Chief Rabbi of Kyrgyzstan || Kyrgyzstan
+| [[Arie Reichman]] || Chief Rabbi of Kyrgyzstan || Kyrgyzstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Menachem Sternbach]] || Rabbi of Lagos || Nigeria
+| [[Menachem Sternbach]] || Rabbi of Lagos || Nigeria || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Chimon Lahiany]] || Rabbi || Marrakesh, Morocco
+| [[Chimon Lahiany]] || Rabbi || Marrakesh, Morocco || Local Moroccan / Sephardi (or Chabad-linked)
 |-
-| [[Yitzchak Gorelik]] || Chief Rabbi || Russian Republic of Tatarstan
+| [[Yitzchak Gorelik]] || Chief Rabbi || Russian Republic of Tatarstan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Isak Peres]] || Rabbi of Yenikoy Community; Bet Din member || Istanbul, Turkey
+| [[Isak Peres]] || Rabbi of Yenikoy Community; Bet Din member || Istanbul, Turkey || Local Turkish Sephardi (Bet Din of Istanbul)
 |-
-| [[Naftali Haleva]] || Etz Ahayim, Ortaköy; Bet Din member || Istanbul, Turkey
+| [[Naftali Haleva]] || Etz Ahayim, Ortaköy; Bet Din member || Istanbul, Turkey || Local Turkish Sephardi (Haleva family; Bet Din of Istanbul)
 |-
-| [[Izak Alaluf]] || Rabbi of Kemerburgaz community; Bet Din member || Istanbul, Turkey
+| [[Izak Alaluf]] || Rabbi of Kemerburgaz community; Bet Din member || Istanbul, Turkey || Local Turkish Sephardi (Bet Din of Istanbul)
 |-
-| [[David Zvi]] || Rabbi of Beit Israel || Istanbul, Turkey
+| [[David Zvi]] || Rabbi of Beit Israel || Istanbul, Turkey || Local Turkish / community rabbi
 |-
-| [[Avraham Gershon]] || Hesed-Leavraam-Buyukada || Istanbul, Turkey
+| [[Avraham Gershon]] || Hesed-Leavraam-Buyukada || Istanbul, Turkey || Local Turkish / community rabbi
 |-
-| [[Mendel Porush]] || Rabbi for Kashrut || Istanbul, Turkey
+| [[Mendel Porush]] || Rabbi for Kashrut || Istanbul, Turkey || Local / kashrut authority (Istanbul)
 |-
-| [[Shlomo Babaev]] || Rabbi of Uzbekistan || Uzbekistan
+| [[Shlomo Babaev]] || Rabbi of Uzbekistan || Uzbekistan || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Shlomo Rabin]] || Head Rabbi of Buchara Jewish community || Uzbekistan
+| [[Shlomo Rabin]] || Head Rabbi of Buchara Jewish community || Uzbekistan || Chabad-Lubavitch / local Bukharan
 |-
-| [[Moshe Raskin]] || Chief Rabbi of Uganda || Uganda
+| [[Moshe Raskin]] || Chief Rabbi of Uganda || Uganda || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Binyamin Hatab]] || Rabbi || Tunisia
+| [[Binyamin Hatab]] || Rabbi || Tunisia || Local Tunisian / Sephardi
 |-
-| [[Mendel Duchman]] || Rabbi || Dubai, UAE
+| [[Mendel Duchman]] || Rabbi || Dubai, UAE || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Shimon Frenkel]] || Emirates Agency for Kosher Certification || UAE
+| [[Shimon Frenkel]] || Emirates Agency for Kosher Certification || UAE || Chabad-Lubavitch / kashrut
 |-
-| [[Shlomo Bentolila]] || Chief Rabbi of Central Africa || Central Africa
+| [[Shlomo Bentolila]] || Chief Rabbi of Central Africa || Central Africa || Chabad-Lubavitch (Head Shaliach of Central Africa)<ref name="Bentolila">Chabad reports on Shlomo Bentolila as emissary to Central Africa since 1991; see e.g. Chabad.org coverage of Chabad of Central Africa.</ref>
 |-
-| [[Yerachmiel Bensaid]] || Chief Rabbi of Ivory Coast || Ivory Coast
+| [[Yerachmiel Bensaid]] || Chief Rabbi of Ivory Coast || Ivory Coast || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Shimi Aziza]] || Chief Rabbi of Tanzania || Tanzania
+| [[Shimi Aziza]] || Chief Rabbi of Tanzania || Tanzania || Chabad-Lubavitch
 |-
-| [[Avraham Hamra]] || Chief Rabbi of Syrian Expatriates Community (in memoriam) || —
+| [[Avraham Hamra]] || Chief Rabbi of Syrian Expatriates Community (in memoriam) || — || Syrian Sephardi
 |}

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 ==See also==
-[[Yitzhak Yosef]]
+*[[Yitzhak Yosef]]
-[[Mendy Chitrik]]
+*[[Mendy Chitrik]]
-Jewish communities in Muslim-majority countries
+*[[Abraham Accords]]
 ==External links==