Zahalon, Jacob Ben-Isaac
a Jewish writer of Rome, was born in 1630, and died at Ferrara in 1693. Besides a large medical work), , he left, in MS., a commentary on Isaiah, entitled : a commentary on Ecclesiastes, : disquisitions on Daniel, : homiletical expositions on the Pentateuch, : a commentary on the Song of Songs, , etc. See Fiirst, Bibl. Jud. 3:541, Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; De’ Rossi, Dizionario Storico Degli Autori Ebrei (Germ. transl.), page 332. (B.P.)