Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (left) and Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri on October 14, 2003. (photo credit: Flash90) All the big names in heaven turned out to welcome Rabbi Ovadia Yosef into the afterlife, said Rabbi ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall on Sunday evening for a massive prayer rally for the recovery of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas party. The event was ...

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 ...

Israel is mourning a legendary political and spiritual figure, after Rabbi Ovadia Yosef died in Jerusalem on Monday. He was 93. The longtime spiritual leader of Sephardic Jews, Yosef also was a ...

“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 ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was targeted by at least one would-be assassin – and one attempt, in 2004, came perilously close to succeeding, his bodyguard Tzachi Berkovitch has revealed. “This was at a ...

Rabbi Yosef won a reputation for his considered judgments and his stress on the practical applications of religious law. His writings in such areas as the status of women or egalitarianism in ...

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 ...

The medical condition of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas movement, remained largely unchanged over Simhat Torah/Shmini Atzeret and is still defined as serious to very serious ...

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) ...