R. Ezekiel b. Joseph Panet (1783–1845), Transylvanian rabbi. He was born in Bielitz (Bielsko), Silesia. Under the Familiants Laws, as the second son of his father, he was forbidden to marry in the country and went to Linsk in Poland. He continued his studies in Linsk until 1807, when he was appointed rabbi of Ostrik in Galicia, and in 1813 became rabbi of Tarcal in Hungary. Panet held the hasidic rabbis in high esteem and maintained close contacts with them. While in Tarcal he became particularly intimate with the hasidic rabbi Isaac Taub, the rabbi of Nagykallo. According to the inscription on his tombstone, Panet also engaged in Kabbalah. After the death of R. Mendel, the rabbi of Alba-Iulia, in 1823, the community asked R. Moses Sofer to recommend a successor. Panet was one of three candidates recommended by Sofer, and he was elected, serving until his death. From 1754 to 1868 the rabbi of this ancient community was regarded as the chief rabbi of Transylvania, and in fact his seal bore the Latin inscription: Supperabi Transilvaniae-sigil-Ezechiel Panet.

The Jewish population of the district was small at the time, and religious life was at a low ebb. R. Panet acted energetically in bringing about a religious revival. Since there were practically no other rabbis in the whole province, he supervised the religious life of the whole area, making regular and repeated journeys for this purpose to the smallest and most isolated communities. During his period of office the community of Alba-Iulia gradually went over from the Sephardi rite, which had hitherto prevailed, to the Ashkenazi. Although according to a family tradition R. Panet left about 18 bound volumes in manuscript, only one of his works was published (posthumously): the responsa Mareh Yehezkel u-She'arei Ziyyon (1875). R. Panet also collected funds for the Hungarian kolel in Erez Israel.

דף צב: ח"ת ... ובפרט ... בסוגי' דהואיל פסחים דף מו, מאת ר' יחזקאל יוסף ז"ל, בנו של המביא לבית הדפוס. דף [צג]-קו: קונטרס שערי ציון ... מאמרים ... בדברי מוסרים [למועדים ולפרשיות התורה], ונחלק לשערים, מאת המחבר. נדפס גם לחוד. עי' להלן. בסוף הספר: הערה, מאת המביא לבית הדפוס. הסכמות: ר' חיים הלברשטאם, צאנז, ב ויגש תרל"ה; ר' יקותיאל יהודה טייטלבוים, סיגעט, ו אדר-א תרל"ה, עם הערה.