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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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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, 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 ...

How could he agree to this? Rabbi Elyashiv objected to it. My father [Rabbi Ovadia Yosef] objected to it. All the leaders of the generation objected to it. With all due respect to Rabbi Druckman ...

As we observe the 11 th anniversary of the passing of Rav Ovadia Yosef z”l (3 Heshvan), we do so in the midst of a deep void in rabbinic leadership in Israel. When I say “Rabbinic Leadership ...