464:, Eliash returned to London on April 5, 1949, to begin service as ambassador. The appointment of the religious Eliash to the post was regarded as a sensitive gesture, as the Jewish Agency had neglected relations with synagogues in the United Kingdom. According to scholar Natan Aridan, Eliash's regular appearances, including leading
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Jerusalem, a British court had sentenced Simcha Hinkis, a Jewish policeman, and Joseph Urphali to death for allegedly killing an Arab family during the riots. Eliash represented Hinkis and Urphali at trial. Both men won appeals of their sentences in 1930 and had their punishments commuted to
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As president of the Jewish Bar
Association, Eliash was a leader of the pro-Hebrew language camp in mandatory courts. A debate within the Jewish legal profession was whether the Hebrew language was essential to the development of a legal system in the Yishuv that was Jewish in the historical and
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on March 11, 1950, at the age of 57. He was predeceased by his wife. He had a daughter, Rachel, and a son, Moshe. At Eliash's funeral in
Jerusalem on March 15, 1950, he was eulogized by senior members of the Israeli government, including Israeli Foreign Minister and future Prime Minister
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and the formation of
Mandatory Palestine under British administration, there was an increase in activity among of the Hebrew Courts of Arbitration, and the Hebrew Law Society was newly reestablished in Palestine. Eliash, along with other prominent Jewish lawyers in Palestine, such as
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cultural sense. Eliash implored Jewish lawyers to use Hebrew in court correspondence and sought sanctions against Jewish lawyers who did not use Hebrew. He allowed exception in cases involving non-Jews or in private appearances before the judiciary. However, even the heads of the
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in central Israel, established in 1950, is named for Eliash. In 1953, a stained glass window at St. John's Wood United
Synagogue was dedicated in Eliash's memory. The synagogue also dedicated windows to first President of Israel
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sent an emissary to Eliash, proposing secret direct talks between al-Husseini and the Jewish Agency. The Jews unanimously rejected entering into any talks with al-Husseini, who had provoked bloodshed against Jews and
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Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and
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interrupted his vacation to attend. Eliash was buried in
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to investigate competing Muslim and Jewish claims to the
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