Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, one of Israel’s most influential ultra-Orthodox spiritual leaders who presided over the Shas political party, has died. He was 93. Yosef died Monday at Hadassah Ein Kerem ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who died Sunday at age 93, confounds anyone who claims to understand Israeli society in simple terms. He was perhaps the most powerful rabbi in Israel for the last quarter ...

Rav Ovadia's chair remains empty next to his sons in the mourning tent in Jerusalem. Rav Ovadia Yosef bequeathed most of his earthly possessions to his youngest son, Rabbi Moshe Yosef, in a letter ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef briefly opened his eyes on the Sabbath, his son Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef – the newly appointed Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel – reported Saturday night. Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a beloved Israeli political and religious figure who fiercely advocated for non-European Jews as head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, died of multiple organ failure Monday in ...

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“You taught us to come down to the nation and not just to climb higher,” said Rabbi Avraham Yosef, eldest son of Ovadia, in his eulogy. “There was no one like him in our generation and no ...

Spokeswoman Etti Dvir of Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem says Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who is in his nineties, was hospitalized on Saturday morning. Dvir wouldn't say what ailment the Rabbi suffered ...

JERUSALEMJERUSALEM — Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the religious scholar and spiritual leader of Israel’s Sephardic Jews who transformed his downtrodden community of immigrants from North Africa and ...

Ovadia Yosef ... He was 93. Yosef died today at the Ein Kerem Hospital of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Dan Gilon, one of the physicians who treated the rabbi, said in an interview ...

Son of late Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi David Yosef, leaves after giving a Torah lesson during a visit to Safed, November 16, 2017. (David Cohen/Flash90) ...