Isaac Chelo (also Hilo, Hilu or Khelo), in Hebrew יצחק חילו, was a rabbi of the 14th century.
Eliakim Carmoly, in his French supposed translation of Chelo's itinerary, wrote "Laresa du royaume d'Aragon",[1] which Gershom Scholem interpreted as an erroneous spelling of Lerida.
[3] He charged that the itinerary had a number of anachronisms, contradictions, and quotations from Kabbalistic works postdating Chelo.
[6] This assessment has been accepted by Michael Ish-Shalom,[7] Dan Shapira,[3] Joshua Prawer[8] and Yoel Elitzur.
[3] Prawer wrote that "This itinerary is unfortunately still being quoted by unwary scholars, even though the forgery was proved almost 50 years ago.