Ovadia Yosef

High Court dismisses Shas petition after Ovadia Yosef memorial conference canceled

The three-day event had been planned for October 6-8 at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center.

 Shas faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on December 8, 2025.
 Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, June 07, 2025; illustrative.

MQG demands gov't open criminal probe into Shas spiritual leader after attack on attorney-general

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Popular Israeli singer Yehoram Gaon marries partner Ella Lusa at age 86

 ZVIKA DEFINED himself as neither secular nor religious and perhaps it would be better to think of him as both secular and religious, says the writer.

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Terra incognita: The Rav and his detractors

Ovadia Yosef was the closest thing Israel had to a Martin Luther King Jr., who demanded respect for his people and for other groups.

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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and the Ethiopian Jews

Rabbi Yosef succeeded in revealing what had been forgotten for years: the historic truth of Beta Israel’s Jewishness.

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Yosef's son to Netanyhau: Haredi draft hurt dad more than his ailments

Prime minister confronted on political issue by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's son during condolence visit to family.

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Shas without Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

Shas suffered serious political divisions when Deri returned, after being convicted of corruption. The party will now face even deeper divisions, with political recriminations likely to turn into a full-blown internal conflict.

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Analysis: Let the battle begin - a quest for Rabbi Yosef's successor

Who will keep Shas united now that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is gone?

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Netanyahu, Peres remember ‘Torah giant’

PM mourns "one of the great Torah sages of our generation"; Lapid, Bennett praise Yosef but Sarid says he won’t forgive him.

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Hundreds of thousands turn out for funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

"You were the Moses of our generation," says Yosef's son David.

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Rabbi Yosef’s legacy

Yosef reached out to a large segment of Sephardi Israelis whose observance was not rigidly Orthodox.

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Death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the end of an era

Shas spiritual leader, a controversial figure who sometimes generated animosity, changed the landscape of Israeli politics; the way ahead for Shas and religious politics in Israel is shrouded in the unknown following his death.

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Shas spiritual leader suffers collapse of bodily systems, life in danger

Doctors: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 93, in immediate danger of death.

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