President Shimon Peres with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in 2011. President Shimon Peres eulogized Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Monday evening, stating, “A few hours ago I went to the hospital to say goodbye to my ...

As we observe the 11 th 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. When I say “Rabbinic Leadership,” I don’t ...

Rabbi Chain Ovadia Yosef, unarguably the greatest Sephardi Torah sage and one of the most influential political leaders of the past 40 years, died in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital Monday after several ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli health official says an influential Israeli rabbi who is the spiritual leader of an ultra-orthodox political party has been hospitalized after feeling unwell. Spokeswoman ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 of Middle East ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef accused of illegal pre-election curses Missives written in rabbi's hand declare: 'Cursed be those for they did not come to the aid of God,' issues halaha to vote Shas.

Born in Baghdad in 1920, Yosef moved with his family to Jerusalem at the age of 4. He taught his first religious class as a teenager and was ordained as a rabbi at age 20. His religious career merged ...

An Israeli source report on Wednesday that a Palestinian resident of Al Esawiyya village, north of Jerusalem, was convicted, in the framework of a bargain deal, of planning to kill Shas party leader ...