Baruch Ben Haim
Baruch Ben Haim (Hebrew: ברוך בן חיים, November 18, 1921 – June 2, 2005) was a Sephardi Hakham who served as  Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York for 55 years. He taught at Magen David Yeshiva and established the Shaare Zion Torah Center at Congregation Shaare Zion. He was a protege of Rabbi Ezra Attiya, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, who trained and dispatched students to leadership positions in Sephardi communities around the world.