Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has been interred alongside his wife, Margalit, after a several-hour journey from the Porat Yosef yeshiva in Geula, where the funeral procession began this afternoon.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If they come to yeshivas and arrest students... we will all go abroad,' says Yitzhak Yosef, threatening a mass exodus for the ...

The vastness of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Torah knowledge is unmatched even by the leading rabbinic authorities of our time, having committed to memory virtually the entire corpus of Torah literature.

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 ...

Ovadia Yosef, an outspoken rabbi who combined religious and political leadership into a role as one of the most powerful religious figures in Israel’s history, died Monday. He was 93.