Johanan Alemanno, the teacher of Pico di Mirandola, seems to have lived for years in Jehiel's house.
In 1472 Abravanel induced Lopo de Almeida and the physician Joao Sezira, Alfonso's ambassadors to the pope, to pay Jehiel a visit.
20b) that the result of education is not dependent upon the merits of the parents: thorns grow in every field among the ears of corn.
Gedaliah ibn Yaḥya relates that most of Jehiel's fortune was spent in aiding the refugees of Spain.
Jehiel's death was bewailed by the poets and writers of his time, such as Eliezer Ezra of Volterra, Solomon of Camerino, and the astronomer Abba Mari Ḥalfon.