Rosh yeshiva and leading Syrian-community Rav
Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful and the Rabbinic Proclamation Concerning Eruvin in New York
Rabbi Yosef Harari-Raful's name is printed on the Kislev 5739 proclamation concerning eruvin in New York and other large cities.
The earlier Manhattan ruling was not limited to Manhattan
The proclamation invokes the rabbinic prohibition issued for the Manhattan eruv and says that no distinction can be made between Manhattan and another large city where the same conditions exist.
Rabbi Harari-Raful appears among Rabbonim from multiple New York communities. As a rosh yeshiva and leading Rav of the Syrian community, his printed inclusion gave that community a place in the collective public warning.
Brooklyn neighborhoods inside the metropolis
The proclamation's language does not reduce the public-domain question to the residents inside a proposed neighborhood route. New York's population and roads are treated as a large-city reality.
Crown Heights is physically part of that same Brooklyn network. Its Rabbonim later applied the practical ruling locally: no valid eruv exists in the neighborhood, and carrying is prohibited.
His inclusion on the surviving page
Rabbi Harari-Raful's name appears in the printed list on the available reproduction. The page does not show a separate autograph for him. It is presented as the collective proclamation that was circulated publicly.