As we observe the 11th 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.

As we mark the 3rd of Cheshvan, the day Rabbi Ovadia Yosef passed away, Jews worldwide will be remembering his outstanding scholarship, leadership, compassion, and knowledge. Yet from a general ...

צילום: Channel 2 News // Late Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef with his son Moshe in a leaked video from 2008 Never before seen footage of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Shas' late spiritual leader, was ...

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 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 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, ...

For a secular Jewish woman in Jerusalem, the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was an opportunity to cross over into the alien bowels of the ultra-Orthodox religious world.

More than 700,000 people gathered in Jerusalem yesterday to mourn the death of a great sage, Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi of Israel and the supreme guide of the Shas political party.

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 ...

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 … ...

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.