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Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף, romanized: Ovadya 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.
Yitzhak Yosef (Hebrew: יצחק יוסף; born () January 16, 1952) is an Israeli Haredi rabbi. The former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel , he also serves as the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia [ he ] in Jerusalem's Romema neighborhood.
The Yosef family is an Israeli family noted for prominent Mizrahi Rabbis, and for its involvement in Israeli politics through the Shas political party. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973-1983 and founder of Shas, was considered the pre-eminent leader of Mizrahi Jews during and after his lifetime.
The most important and influential leader of present-day Sephardic Haredi community in Israel was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel and the spiritual leader of the Shas political party. He was considered the foremost religious authority by most Sephardic Yeshivas, especially large and influential ones such as Porat Yosef.
David Yosef was born and raised in Jerusalem.He is the ninth child of the former Israeli Chief Rabbi and Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef. [13] He studied at the Or Israel Yeshiva in his youth, a year at the Ponevezh Yeshiva and then at the Hebron Yeshiva (Knesset of Israel) in Jerusalem.
Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013) 1973–1983 Spiritual leader and founder of Shas political party Father of Yitzchak Yosef 5 Mordechai Eliyahu (1929–2010) 1983–1993 6 Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron (1941–2020) 1993–2003 Convicted of fraud, sentenced to probation and ordered to pay a NIS 250,000 fine 7 Shlomo Amar (born 1948) 2003–2013
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is seated, with his son Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef to his right, Rabbi Shalom Cohen at the far right, and Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron in the back. Shimon Peres stands at the far left. The council was established along with the establishment of Shas in 1982, in order to serve as the spiritual leadership of the new movement.
Eliyahu worked for the preservation of the Iraqi Jewish rite and the opinions of the Ben Ish Hai, and opposed the attempts of Ovadia Yosef to impose a uniform "Israeli Sephardi" rite based on the Shulchan Aruch and his own halakhic opinions. He published a prayer book called Qol Eliyahu, based on this stance.