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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.
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.
Funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: October 7, 2013 Israel: Jerusalem: 850,000 [131] [132] State funeral of Võ Nguyên Giáp: October 12–13, 2013 Vietnam: Hanoi: at least 1,000,000 [133] Commemoration of Nelson Mandela: December 10–15, 2013 South Africa: Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Qunu: at least 1,000 [134] [135] (state funeral) at least ...
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.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was the most influential Sephardic Haredi leader. He was also the spiritual leader of the Shas political party. Sephardic Haredim are Jews of Sephardi and Mizrahi descent who are adherents of Haredi Judaism.
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Ethiopian Jews in Israel are immigrants and descendants of the immigrants from the Beta Israel communities in Ethiopia who now reside in Israel. [2] [3] [4] To a lesser, but notable, extent, the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel is also composed of Falash Mura, a community of Beta Israel which had converted to Christianity over the course of the past two centuries, but were permitted to ...