Years: 1798–1878
Primary city: Zemun
Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai was a Sephardic rabbi and an early proponent of the restoration of Jews to Eretz Israel. He authored several works on the topic, which proposed methods for Jewish colonization of the land. After serving the Sephardic community of Semlin for almost fifty years, first as a teacher and then as its rabbi, he settled in Jerusalem in 1874 for the remainder of his life.