This list of Sephardi chief rabbis of the Land of Israel documents the rabbis who served as the spiritual leader of the Sephardic community in the Land of Israel from the mid 17th-century to present. The Hebrew title for the position, Rishon le-Zion, (lit. "First to Zion"), has been used since the beginning of the 17th-century, and is sourced from a verse in Isiah 41:27.
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