Ariel Bension

Ariel Bension (also transliterated as Ben-Zion, born May 7, 1880, in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire; died November 9, 1932, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, French Third Republic) was a Jewish writer.

Ariel Bension was the "son of a grand chacham of a Moroccan Kabbalist sect"[1] and a descendant of Abraham ben Samuel ibn Hasdai ha-Levi of Barcelona.

[2] As a young man, Bension spent some time with relatives in French North Africa and then went to Germany and Switzerland to study philosophy.

Bension was active in Zionism and traveled to Jewish communities in the Near East, and Asia, North Africa, South America and Europe, where he campaigned for support for the Yishuv of Palestine.

Because of his historical work on the Zohar, he was appointed (corresponding) member of the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid.