Following a court settlement, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, grandson of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef for whom he is named after and son of immediate past Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, died Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 93. TEL AVIV (JTA ...

Among the Israeli visitors, however, was one unlikely figure: Adina Bar Shalom, the eldest daughter of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 92, the longtime spiritual leader of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas Party ...

A throng estimated at more than 800,000 filled the streets of Jerusalem for the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Sephardic sage and political leader. (JTA) — A throng estimated at more than ...

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The next Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel is Rabbi David Yosef, the Rabbinate announced Sunday evening, adding that the ...

Yosef’s comments echo sentiments previously expressed within the haredi community by his late father, former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef, suggesting in 2013 that haredim might leave if compelled to ...

Speaking to his party newspaper Haderech (“The Path”), the former minister, using religious jargon, reminded readers about how rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shas’s founder, asked then-prime minister ...

A member of the Sephardi haredi Orthodox Shas party’s rabbinical council called the Modern Orthodox community Amalek, referring to the archenemy of the Jewish people. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A ...