How Rabbi Ovadia Yosef changed the life of a young tearaway everyone had come to call ‘the criminal.’ ...

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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By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Some 700,000 mourners turned out on Monday for the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, an Iraqi-born sage who transformed an Israeli underclass of Sephardic Jews ...

Followers of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef mourn outside his home in Jerusalem on Monday. The rabbi, who transformed his downtrodden community into a powerful force in Israeli politics, died at age 93.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef influenced several hundred thousand observant Sephardic Jews and headed the Shas political party.

The young Yosef family in Egypt: Rav Ovadia, Adina, Yaakov and the mother, Margalit. Haredi women don't dress like this these days… I am saddened to hear of the death of one of the most ...

JERUSALEM – Some 700,000 mourners turned out on Monday for the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, an Iraqi-born sage who transformed an Israeli underclass of Sephardic Jews of Middle East heritage ...

The grandson of Israel's former chief Sephardic rabbi is set to marry his long-term boyfriend next week. Ovadia Cohen, named for his grandfather Rabbi Ovadia Yosef—the most influential Sephardic ...

Outspoken Ovadia Yosef is the chief spiritual adviser of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party.

Hundreds of Israelis on Monday bid an emotional farewell to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 93, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel.

Hundreds of Israelis on Monday bid an emotional farewell to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 93, the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel. The spiritual leader died at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem ...