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Ovadia Yosef

Former Sephardic chief rabbi and Shas spiritual leader Yitzhak Yosef arrives at an anti-enlistment conference in Bnei Brak, July 31, 2025. (Daniel Nafusi)
October 24, 2025, 1:49 pm
Top Shas rabbis pan party leader Deri as Haredi draft exemption bill remains elusive
In leaked recordings, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef says Shas should leave coalition, forcing elections; voices distrust of ‘atheist’ Netanyahu, whom he says his father, Ovadia Yosef, disliked
By Michael Horovitz
File — Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (food containing leavening) of the state of Israel before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 14, 2024, 11:54 pm
In clips with Arabic subtitles, Jerusalem rabbis condemn Jewish prayer at Temple Mount
After Ben Gvir says it’s ‘policy’ to allow Jewish prayer at contested site, over PM’s denials, spiritual leaders slam ‘radical fringes,’ affirm ruling Jews should stay away entirely
By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff
Israelis protest outside the home of Shas leader Aryeh Deri, calling for equal conscription laws to be implemented, April 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 7, 2024, 10:44 pm
Shas rabbis spurn compromise on Haredi draft following High Court ruling
As Netanyahu pursues deal with parties, letter by prominent figures with ties to Shas contradicts apparent flexibility that set Sephardi faction apart from Ashkenazi counterpart
By Canaan Lidor
Salah Hamouri arrives in Paris after he was deported from Israel, on December 18, 2022. (Daphné BENOIT / AFP)
December 19, 2022, 7:59 pm
‘A war crime’: UN pans Israeli expulsion of Palestinian lawyer said linked to terror
UN human rights office says ‘deporting a protected person from occupied territory is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention,’ warns of move’s chilling effect
By AFP and Agencies
Salah Hamouri (R) arrives in Paris after he was deported from Israel, on December 18, 2022 (Daphné BENOIT / AFP)
December 18, 2022, 2:04 pm
France slams Israel for deporting Palestinian over alleged terror: ‘Against the law’
French Foreign Ministry says Israel can’t expel an individual from ‘occupied’ East Jerusalem, says Paris has ‘fully mobilized’ to ensure Salah Hamouri can reside in the city
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Franco-Palestinian lawyer and Adameer field researcher Salah Hamouri at the NGO's offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 1, 2020. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
December 18, 2022, 8:06 am
Israel deports Palestinian lawyer allegedly involved in terror activities to France
Officials say Salah Hamouri, who spent 7 years in prison for plot to assassinate former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef, is still active in PFLP terror group; he denies accusations
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
Salah Hamouri is greeted after arriving at his home in Jerusalem following his released from Israeli prison in a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, Dec. 18 2011. (Sliman Khader/FLASH90)
December 2, 2022, 8:07 am
Israel says Palestinian who plotted to kill top rabbi to be deported for new actions
Officials say Salah Hammouri, who spent seven years in prison after being convicted in plan to assassinate Ovadia Yosef, has returned to activities tied to terrorism
By AP and ToI Staff
Salah Hamouri, a French-Palestinian lawyer, embraces his father Hassan at their home in the village of Dahyat al-Barid near Jerusalem in the West Bank, after being released from an Israeli prison, on September 30, 2018. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
June 6, 2022, 2:23 pm
French-Palestinian lawyer held for alleged terror links jailed for 3 more months
Salah Hamouri held under administrative detention; was picked up day after publishing op-ed criticizing ‘Israeli apartheid’; rights groups say his phone was hacked with NSO spyware
By AFP and ToI Staff
An Ethiopian Israeli woman holds pictures of relatives as she protests in front of the Knesset in Jerusalem, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
September 10, 2020, 9:17 pm
As Israel okays some Ethiopian immigrants, thousands more ‘face disaster’
Funds to feed families waiting years in Addis, Gondar are drying up because of COVID-19, with malnutrition rampant; Aliya Minister Tamano-Shata urges to honor 2015 airlift decision
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, at a ceremony marking six years since the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, at the Knesset, November 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 4, 2019, 10:07 pm
Gantz and Netanyahu finally unite… to praise late Shas rabbi Yosef
With MKs from left and right attending memorial event, controversial views and disagreements of past take backseat to praise for Ovadia Yosef’s Torah genius
By Raoul Wootliff
Adina Bar-Shalom, the daughter of the late Shas spirtual leader, Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (Flash90)
October 29, 2019, 6:38 pm
Ovadia Yosef’s daughter awarded NIS 20k after rabbi calls her ‘Reform’
Adina Bar-Shalom sues Beit Shemesh Rabbi David Benizri for saying she’s an ‘accursed, wicked woman’ over her support of female political candidates in the Haredi city
By ToI Staff and JTA
Shas leader Aryeh Deri in synagogue, September 14, 2019 (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
September 16, 2019, 2:05 pm
Shas could throw the elections a curve ball
The leaders of the Sephardi Haredi party have warned voters that their very redemption depends on Tuesday’s election results. This could win Shas nine seats or more
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Rabbi Avraham Yosef, son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, attends a ceremony in memory of his father in Jerusalem on October 22, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 12, 2019, 9:10 am
Son of Shas former spiritual leader: Lapid should go to hell, with his dad
Shas head Deri says Tuesday election a referendum on religion and state, predicts Netanyahu will form unity government with Blue and White, Yisrael Beytenu
By ToI Staff
Illustration by Avi Katz
April 2, 2019, 4:49 am
The Chair
This month’s Necessary Story offers a rear-window view of love and betrayal at election time
By Haim Watzman
Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)
December 23, 2018, 10:27 am
In Israel, calling someone ‘Reform’ may get you sued for libel
Adina Bar-Shalom — a daughter of former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Ovadia Yosef — sues Rabbi David Benizri, asking that court recognize the term as a slur
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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