[2] His family, who has a long lineage of rabbis, are Sephardic Jews from Kashan, Iran.

[2][3] He became a liaison and spokesperson for Iranian Jews before the Shah, government officials, and Islamic clerics.

[1][2] He was instrumental in persuading the Shah and other government officials in the early 1950s to allow Iraqi Jews, who had been forced to leave Iraq, to find temporary refuge in Iran before eventually immigrating to Israel.

[1] In the United States, Shofet, with his son and other community leaders, helped establish the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, California.

[2] He was buried at the Eden Memorial Park Cemetery in Mission Hills, California.