יחיא יצחק הלוי

Yiḥya Yitzḥak Halevi, son of Moshe (Musa) Yitzḥak Halevi, was a Yemeni born rabbinical scholar who served as one of the last great scholars and chief jurists of the rabbinic court at Ṣan‘ā’, which post he held for nearly thirty years, a time interrupted only during the siege laid to the city by loyal Yemeni forces under Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd ad-Dīn (1904–1948) in their bid to oust the Ottoman Turks who then controlled the city. The Rabbi, meanwhile, had fled with his family to Dhamar.