A report on Ovadia Yosef
Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party.
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Salah Hamouri
0 linksLawyer and field researcher for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
Lawyer and field researcher for the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
Hamouri was arrested in 2005 and accused of plotting to murder Ovadia Yosef, the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel.
Avraham Yosef
1 linksFormer Chief Rabbi of Holon and Sephardi representative on the Chief Rabbinate Council .
Former Chief Rabbi of Holon and Sephardi representative on the Chief Rabbinate Council .
Harav Avraham Yosef is a son of Shas' spiritual leader, and former Israeli Chief Rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, and a brother of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, a Jerusalem politician who was a member of the Eleventh Knesset.
Adina Bar-Shalom
0 linksIsraeli educator, columnist, and social activist.
Israeli educator, columnist, and social activist.
Adina Yosef (Bar-Shalom) was born in Jerusalem, the eldest daughter of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Margalit Fattal.
United Torah Judaism
3 linksHaredi, religious conservative political alliance in Israel.
Haredi, religious conservative political alliance in Israel.
Later, Shas broke with Rabbi Shach, as it adopted its own independent political stance under Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Sadqa Hussein
2 linksSephardi dayan, mohel, and spiritual leader to the Iraqi Jewish community in Iraq and Israel.
Sephardi dayan, mohel, and spiritual leader to the Iraqi Jewish community in Iraq and Israel.
In 1933, Hussein persuaded the father of a 12-year-old Ovadia Yosef to send his son to the Porat Yosef Yeshiva.
Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah
1 linksRabbinical body that has the ultimate authority in the Israeli ultra-orthodox Sephardic and Mizrahi Shas Party.
Rabbinical body that has the ultimate authority in the Israeli ultra-orthodox Sephardic and Mizrahi Shas Party.
Founder members of the council were Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Shimon Baadani, Rabbi Shalom Cohen and Rabbi Shabtai Aton (whom following the cessation of support of the Ashkenazi Torah sages retired in 1990).
Badatz Beit Yosef
1 linksKosher certification that is widely used by Sephardic and other Jews in Israel.
Kosher certification that is widely used by Sephardic and other Jews in Israel.
Badatz Beit Yosef was run by Ovadia Yosef until his death in 2013, and is currently run by his son Rabbi Moshe Yosef.
Yaakov Ades
0 linksSephardi Hakham, Rosh Yeshiva, and Rabbinical High Court judge.
Sephardi Hakham, Rosh Yeshiva, and Rabbinical High Court judge.
As rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem, he raised thousands of students, including Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel; Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul, rosh yeshiva of Porat Yosef; and Rabbi Yehuda Hakohen Rabin, Chief Rabbi of Bukharan Jewry in Israel.
Sanhedria Cemetery
2 links27-dunam (6.67-acre) Jewish burial ground in the Sanhedria neighborhood of Jerusalem, adjacent to the intersection of Levi Eshkol Boulevard, Shmuel HaNavi Street, and Bar-Ilan Street.
27-dunam (6.67-acre) Jewish burial ground in the Sanhedria neighborhood of Jerusalem, adjacent to the intersection of Levi Eshkol Boulevard, Shmuel HaNavi Street, and Bar-Ilan Street.
Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel - All the way to the far right upon entering.
Independence Day (Israel)
1 linksNational day of Israel, commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.
National day of Israel, commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.
The innovation was strongly denounced by his Sephardic counterpart, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, leader of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America.