Benveniste Ben Ḥiyyah Ben Aldayyan (Called Also Al-Yasis [The Elder] Or Ibn Al-Yasis):

By: Richard Gottheil , Meyer Kayserling

Physician and religious poet of the thirteenth century. Zunz mentions three metrical "baḳḳashahs" (supplications) written by him. At Benveniste's request, Jacob ben Eleazar under-took the translation of "Kalilah wa-Dimnah" from the Arabic into Hebrew. To the preface of this translation Jacob prefixed a few verses laudatory of Benveniste.