Simeon ben Gamliel
According to the "Iggeret of Rabbi Sherira Gaon" he was beheaded , along with Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha the High Priest , prior to the Temple's destruction , although the historian Josephus Flavius mentions only the execution of Ishmael in Cyrene during the First Jewish–Roman War ( ca . 
<triplet> Ishmael ben Elisha <subj> High Priest <obj> position held