For more stories from ALL ISRAEL NEWS go to allisrael.com The apology follows a legal dispute between Rabbi Yosef, head of the Tiferet Ohel Moshe Kollel in Beit Shemesh and grandson of the late Rabbi ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, died Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 93. TEL AVIV (JTA ...

Everyone in Israel knew Ovadia Yosef’s name, but in public his followers would hardly use it, opting instead to call him Maran, our master. On the sidewalk, a half-dozen men stood at a long ...