Ovadia Yosef

Ovadia Yosef
עובדיה יוסף
Ovadia Yosef in the synagogue below his house
Personal
BornSeptember 24, 1920
DiedOctober 7, 2013(2013-10-07) (aged 93)
ReligionJudaism
NationalityIsraeli
SpouseMargalit Fattal
Children11, including Yitzhak Yosef, Ya'akov Yosef, David Yosef and Adina Bar-Shalom
Parent(s)Yaakov and Gorjiya Ovadia
DenominationSephardi Haredi Judaism
Alma materPorat Yosef Yeshiva
OccupationAuthor, Politician, Rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and recognized halakhic authority
Signature
Jewish leader
PredecessorYitzhak Nissim
SuccessorMordechai Eliyahu
PositionSephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
OrganisationChief Rabbinate of Israel
Began1973
Ended1983
OtherSephardi Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
Spiritual leader of the Shas political party
BuriedSanhedria Cemetery
ResidenceJerusalem
SemikhahRabbi Ben Zion Hai Uziel[1]

Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף, romanizedOvadya Yosef, Arabic: عبد الله يوسف, romanized‘Abd Allāh Yūsuf;[2] September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013)[3] was an 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.[4][5] Yosef's responsa were highly regarded within Haredi circles, particularly among Mizrahi communities, among whom he was regarded as "the most important living halakhic authority".[6]

  1. ^ Bashan, Refael (8 October 2013). "Rabbi Yosef in 1972: In Egypt they thought I was an Israeli spy". Ynetnews. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Rabbi Ovadia Yosef". Haaretz. 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  3. ^ "Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dies at 93". The Jerusalem Post. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  4. ^ "What if he goes?". The Economist. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference ny was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Israel News | Online Israeli News Covering Israel & The Jewish World – JPost". Fr.jpost.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2012-06-06.

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