What is Elio Toaff?
[[File:Toaff e Scalfaro.jpg|thumb|250px|Toaff with [[Oscar Luigi Scalfaro]] in 2007]] '''Elio Toaff''' (30 April 1915 &ndash; 19 April 2015) was an [[Italians|Italian]] [[rabbi]]. He was the Chief Rabbi of [[Rome]] from 1951 to 2002. From 1947, he served as a rabbi in [[Venice]]. He had a friendship with [[Pope John Paul II]], and attended his [[Funeral of Pope John Paul II|funeral]] in April 2005. Toaff was born in [[Livorno]]. One of his children is [[Israel]]i-Italian professor [[Ariel Toaff]] (born 1942 in [[Ancona]]). Toaff died on 19 April 2015 in [[Rome]], aged 99.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/former-chief-rabbi-of-rome-dies-two-weeks-before-100th-birthday/2015/04/20/|title=Former Chief Rabbi of Rome Dies Two weeks before 100th Birthday|work=The Jewish Press|date=20 April 2015|accessdate=20 April 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Toaff, Elio}} [[Category:1915 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Chief rabbis]] [[Category:European rabbis]] [[Category:Italian Jews]] [[Category:People from Livorno]] {{Bio-stub}}