Following a court settlement, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, grandson of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef for whom he is named after and son of immediate past Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, has ...

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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, leader of the Shas party, also declared that Prime Minister Ehud Barak has "no sense" because he is trying to make peace with the Palestinians, who are "snakes." ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Saturday night sermons to a few dozen black-hatted yeshiva seminarians in an obscure Jerusalem synagogue have become a spectator sport, although it’s more like bearbaiting ...

During the composition of the tenth and final volume, R. Y. H. Sofer passed away, leaving the completion of his work, to the then young prodigy, Chacham Ovadia Yosef, whom he came to know in their ...

The seriously ailing Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has broken off ties with his former protege for the second time since the summer, bringing their brief reconciliation to an end as the question of who will ...

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.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, an Iraqi-born sage who turned an Israeli underclass of Sephardic Jews of Middle Eastern heritage into a powerful political force, died on Monday at the age of 93, plunging ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, an Iraqi-born sage who turned an Israeli underclass of Sephardic Jews of Middle Eastern heritage into a powerful political force, died on Monday at the age of 93, a hospital ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Chief Rabbi of Israel, will be arriving here April 21 as a guest of the Sephardic community and the American Sephardi Federation. During his stay he will visit major Jewish ...

Israelis under 30 think Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the most powerful person in Israel, a study found. The Israel Center for Youth Leadership conducted the poll of some 400 youth ages 14 to 30 in the ...