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 ...

Police are not quick to surmise a connection between the former chief rabbi’s vicious attack on Edelstein and Netanyahu and the arson.

“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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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) ...