Tunisian President Zine El Ben Ali addressed his condolences to the family of the country's chief Rabbi, Haim Madar, who died on Friday.
The President also sent a message of condolences to the Chief Rabbi of Jerba in which he conveyed “to all members of the Tunisian Jewish community his sincere condolences and expressions of sympathy.”
A Tunisian Jewish community announcement published in Tunisian papers said, “The Chief Rabbi has left us after a long and painful sickness. He was a man of great piety and great culture.”
