Letter of Recommendation to the Shadar (emissary of the Rabbis) Rabbi Shlomo Ochana, the Committee of the Sephardic ...

Letter of Recommendation to the Shadar (emissary of the Rabbis) Rabbi Shlomo Ochana, the Committee of the Sephardic Community – Signed by the Rishon Le'Zion Rabbi Ya'akov Meir
The Committee of the Sephardic Community is an ancient institution which, by tradition, was established by Nahmanides. Ha'Rishon Le'Zion, whose office was united, since the forties of the 19th century, with that of "Hakham Bashi" (Chief Rabbi) headed the committee and was acknowledged as the representative of the whole Yishuv by the Ottoman authorities and as the supreme religious authority. The Committee also treated the poor and the elderly and used hundreds of public properties for the matter.
The letter before us is a letter of recommendation to the Shadar, which specifies the activity of the Committee: "the committee which includes fourteen Sephardic communities, elderly people and widows from the new immigrants and from the residents of Jerusalem …. who are actually hungry for bread … thirteen thousand people…"
The following signed the letter: the head of the Committee, Ha'Rishon Le'Zion and Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Ya'akov Meir (1856-1939), the president of the committee, Rabbi David Abulafia (1893-1953), a lawyer and public personality in the Yishuv, and his "deputy" (possibly, Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Ha'Levi, a member of the first Chief Rabbinate).
Undated (probably from 1932, during which Rabbi Shlomo [Avraham] Ochana travelled to Western countries on a mission of the rabbis).
Size: 21X26 cm.
Condition: Excellent. Creases. Filing holes.