Rav Cohen cites multiple halakhic sources including Rav Ovadia Yosef (Yechaveh Daat 2:14), who brings the example of David Hamelech to distinguish between justified and unjustified bloodshed.

A settlement was recently reached in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, requiring Rabbi Yosef to issue a public apology both in writing and during his weekly class. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, grandson ...

The next Sephardic chief rabbi is Rabbi David Yosef, the Rabbinate announces. Yosef is the rabbi of Har Nof, a religious Jerusalem neighborhood, and is a veteran Torah teacher who is supported by ...

Israel National News Oct 18, 2023, 12:23 PM (GMT+3) Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Swords of Iron Rabbi Yosef at his father's grave Yaakov Cohen ...

After Sharon unilaterally disengaged from Gaza, Rav Ovadia Yosef said about Sharon, "He will sleep and never wake up." Soon after, Sharon fell into a coma, a sleepless state, and later died only ...

In his summation, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef states that one does not fulfill the mitzvah of lighting Chanukah candles with an electric menorah, but agrees that if a person has no other menorah, he should ...

Rav Ovadia Yoseph (Sheailot Teshuvot) states that nowadays we have no prophets, therefore, we must act according to proper modern medical advice. Chazon Ish (Kovetz Iggros) writes that the need to ...

Rav Ovadia Yosef bequeathed most of his earthly possessions to his youngest son, Rabbi Moshe Yosef, in a letter submitted to his attorney David Glass in 2005, and renewed in 2012, according to a ...

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 ...

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.

Mourners gather around the body of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who died on Monday at the age of 93. At its height, Shas – now in opposition – held 17 of parliament’s 120 seats.

More than 800,000 Israelis mourned 93-year-old Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a spiritual leader, political force and former chief rabbi for Jews of Spanish, North African and Middle Eastern origin.