“Hazon Ovadia,” in 1952. In 1970, the government awarded him the prestigious Israel Prize in recognition of his books. Yosef defeated a sitting chief rabbi in the 1973 election, itself a ...

Among the Israeli visitors, however, was one unlikely figure: Adina Bar Shalom, the eldest daughter of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, 92, the longtime spiritual leader of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas Party.

A settlement was recently reached in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, requiring Rabbi Yosef to issue a public apology both ...

Moshe Ovadia confirmed that his son had loved that book since he learned it before his Bar Mitzvah, and carried it everywhere. Rabbi Miller decided that the example of this fallen soldier ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, grandson of former Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (photo credit: MAARIV) Following a court settlement, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, grandson of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef for ...