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    Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף‎, romanized: Ovadya Yosef, Arabic: عبد الله يوسف, romanized: ‘Abd Allāh Yūsuf; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013)...
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    yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia [he] in Jerusalem's Romema neighbourhood. Yosef, the son of former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef, bases his halakhic (Jewish...
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  • Shas (category Ovadia Yosef)
    political party in Israel. Founded in 1984 under the leadership of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli Sephardi chief rabbi, who remained its spiritual leader...
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    Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013) a Talmudic scholar, and authority on Jewish religious law, and spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party. Yosef...
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  • reporter Ovadia Eli (born 1945), Israeli politician Ovadia Hedaya (1889–1969), Israeli rabbi Ovadia Yosef (1918 or 1920 – 2013), Iraqi-born former Sephardi...
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    party, he allied with Ovadia Yosef, with whom he founded the Shas party in 1984. Later, in 1988, Shach criticized Ovadia Yosef, saying that, "Sepharadim...
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  • "Intense mourning after death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef". The Times of Israel. 7 October 2013. "Former Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef leaves inheritance to son Moshe"...
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    1988. Ya'akov Yosef (Jacob Joseph) was born in Jerusalem towards the end of the Mandate era, the second child (oldest son) of Ovadia Yosef, a prominent...
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    Adina Bar-Shalom (category Ovadia Yosef)
    of Ovadia Yosef, she is a member of the prominent Yosef family. Adina Yosef (Bar-Shalom) was born in Jerusalem, the eldest daughter of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef...
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  • refers to Karo. Amongst contemporary rabbis, Yosef Shalom Eliashiv and Ovadia Yosef are most closely associated with the honorific. In contemporary parlance...
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  • involvement in Israeli politics through the Shas political party. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973-1983 and founder of Shas,...
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    books in Jewish Law mainly based on the rulings of his father, Hacham Ovadia Yosef. His most notable work is a set of books named Halacha Berura, which...
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  • rulings of the former Rishon LeTzion Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. It was written by Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, his son. Yalkut Yosef is written to give practical halachic...
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    directed by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who afterwards granted him rabbinical ordination. Rabbi Sacca is considered one of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's closest students...
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  • of Torah learning, for example, one may refer to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef as "HaGaon Rabbi Ovadia Yosef".[citation needed] Genius (disambiguation) Jehoshua Brand...
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    minister (2001–06) Chaim Weizmann – first President of Israel (1949–52) Ovadia Yosef – spiritual leader of the Shas party Rehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet...
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    the entire Shulchan Aruch. In Porat Yosef, Rabbi Ben Haim fostered a close relationship with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who studied Even Ha'ezer with him. In...
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    Sofer. Yalkut Yosef, a contemporary Sephardi work of Halakha, based on the rulings of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Yehuda Fatiyah — a student of Yosef Chaim. Ben...
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    him. Hamouri was arrested in 2005 and accused of plotting to murder Ovadia Yosef, founder of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party and former Sephardic Chief...
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  • Wosner (Shevet Halevi) (1913–2015), Posek, Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), Iraqi-born Halakhist, Posek and Sephardic Chief Rabbi of...
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  • anti-gentile remarks have been expressed by the late chief Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in which he stated in a sermon in 2010 that "The sole purpose of Gentiles...
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    significant religious figure in this movement is Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, himself educated in Porat Yosef Yeshiva, who sought to defend and preserve the Sephardic...
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  • rabbi Amnon Yitzhak (1953–), Yemenite "ba'al teshuva Rabbi" in Israel Ovadia Yosef (1920–2013), Iraqi-Israeli former Israel Sephardic Chief Rabbi, legal...
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    which publishes the works of his father, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel. Moshe Yosef is the sole inheritor of his father's writings...
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    Siddur Siddur Yeḥavveh Daat Siddur Avodat Ha-shem Siddur Ḥazon Ovadia Maḥzor Ḥazon Ovadia Siddur Kavanat Halev סדור עוד אבינו חי: למחנה וערבית : נוסח ליוורנו...
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    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...
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    of the Sephardic Haredi lifestyle movement also began in the 1980s by Ovadia Yosef, alongside the establishment of the Shas party in 1984. This led many...
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    other synagogue in the area. The former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, also forbade the flying of the Israeli flag in synagogues, calling it...
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  • child was conceived. An example is a contemporary responsum by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, establishing the impossibility to prove mamzer status in a case where...
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  • Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel (1911–1939) Ya'akov Moshe Toledano (1942–1960) Ovadia Yosef (1968–1973) Hayim David HaLevi (1973–1998?) Joseph Weinreb 1900–1942...
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