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Yehuda Deri

Rabbi Yehuda Deri (R), chief rabbi of the southern city of Beersheba, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on December 12, 2012. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch / FLASH90)
July 10, 2024, 4:51 pm
Eyebrows raised as son of late Beersheba rabbi is declared his successor at funeral
With no apparent authority to do so, ex-Sephardic chief rabbi announces at cemetery that son of Yehuda Deri will take over his father’s role as southern city’s top rabbinical figure
By ToI Staff
Shas leader Aryeh Deri (L) listens to his brother Beersheba's late chief rabbi Yehuda Deri. (Yaakov Cohen)
July 9, 2024, 5:27 pm
Yehuda Deri, brother of Shas leader and Beersheba chief rabbi, dies at 66
Deri died after complications from infection; spiritual leaders and politicians mourn rabbinical judge who was seen as leading candidate to become Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Ethiopian religious leaders, in the Israeli town of Yavne, prepare for a large demonstration against their mistreatment in Israeli society, June 22, 2015. (FLASH90)
January 20, 2020, 12:40 am
Top state rabbinical body reinforces ruling that Ethiopian Jews are Jewish
Decision comes to counter lingering discrimination, doubts of Jewishness, that have continued four decades after then-chief rabbi ruled Ethiopia’s Beta Israel community are Jews
By ToI Staff
Rona Ramon, who died on December 17, 2018. She was the widow of first Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in a fatal accident aboard the space shuttle Columbia on May 9, 2013, and the mother of IAF pilot Asaf Ramon, who died in a crash during a training flight in September 2009. (Flash90)
December 20, 2018, 11:56 am
Rona Ramon’s cremation request roils rabbis
Some Orthodox religious leaders offer to arrange Jewish burial in defiance of her last wishes; others say there’s no room for intervention or judgment
By Marissa Newman
The Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (L) and Rabbi David Lau (R) speaks during an event, on January 11, 2016. (Yaakov Coehn/Flash90)
December 15, 2016, 6:57 am
Rabbinate forms conversion vetting panel, raising hackles anew
Committee includes member who rejected New York rabbi Lookstein, who brought Ivanka Trump into Judaism and now apparently won’t be accepted despite chief rabbis’ promises
By ToI Staff
Female soldiers stationed at an Iron Dome battery, August 2011 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
January 10, 2014, 11:19 pm
Livni, Lapid slam Rabbinate over female conscription
Ministers respond harshly to top religious body’s decree that observant Jewish women should not serve in the military
By Yoel Goldman
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L) and Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar, March 11, 2013. (photo credit: Flash 90)
July 18, 2013, 12:58 pm
Would-be chief rabbis line up
10 candidates for the highest rabbinic position in the land include sons of former chief rabbis and a few controversial figures
By Stuart Winer
July 15, 2013, 12:42 am
Shas mentor’s son may be ineligible for chief rabbi race
Yitzhak Yosef failed to renew rabbinical license for several years
By Asher Zeiger
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