Ovadia Yosef

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

According to videos shared on social media, Yosef said that Miara was "crazy," and threatened that "God will curse her."

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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.
YEHORAM GAON

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

The couple reportedly first met on Facebook, after Lusa sent Gaon a message as a fan of his work. The two began talking on Skype, eventually met in person, and started dating.

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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.

Israeli society Jewish for all Jews - Zvika Zameret's legacy - opinion

This was the bridge that Zvika was constantly trying to build between all parts of Israeli society. The permanent tension he sought to resolve.

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Lyon mayor Gregory Doucet.

French mayor cancels Oslo Accords commemoration due to security fears

The conference was going to be titled: "Thirty years after the signing the Oslo Accords, a look at Palestine," according to French news magazine L'Express.

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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.

OCTOBER 8, 2013BySHARON SHALOM
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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.

OCTOBER 8, 2013ByYUVAL BAGNO, JPOST.COM STAFF
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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.

OCTOBER 8, 2013ByJEREMY SHARON
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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?

OCTOBER 8, 2013ByGIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN
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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.

OCTOBER 8, 2013ByHERB KEINON, GREER FAY CASHMAN, , GIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN
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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.

OCTOBER 8, 2013ByJEREMY SHARON
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Rabbi Yosef’s legacy

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

OCTOBER 7, 2013ByJPOST EDITORIAL
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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.

OCTOBER 7, 2013ByJEREMY SHARON
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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.

OCTOBER 7, 2013ByJPOST.COM STAFF
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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef regains consciousness, condition improves

93-year-old Shas spiritual leader's doctor says "danger to his life is still there in the background, but less extreme.”

OCTOBER 2, 2013ByJEREMY SHARON
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