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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.
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.
Joseph Dweck was born in Los Angeles, California, into a family of Syrian Jewish descent. [1]After finishing high school, he studied in Jerusalem at Hazon Ovadia Yeshiva under the tutelage of Sephardi Chief Rabbis of Israel Ovadia Yosef and Yitzhak Yosef.
Adina Yosef (Bar-Shalom) was born in Jerusalem, the eldest daughter of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Margalit Fattal. From age 3 to 6, she lived in Cairo, Egypt, where her father served as deputy chief rabbi. She is a graduate of the Bais Yaakov girls' school network. As a teenager, she studied tailoring at a Bais Yaakov professional institution.
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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 [] in Jerusalem's Romema neighborhood.
Shas (Hebrew: ש״ס) is a Haredi religious political party in Israel. [12] Founded in 1984 under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi, who remained its spiritual leader until his death in October 2013, it primarily represents the interests of Sephardic and Mizrahi Haredi Jews.
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.