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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, founder of Shas and Sephardic sage, dies at 93
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 ...
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One in 800,000 at Rav Ovadia’s funeral
a steady stream moving east along one of Jerusalem’s central thoroughfares to the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. At 5 p.m., an hour before the funeral, the streets were already closed to cars ...