Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was a preeminent 20th-century Sephardic rabbi, halachic authority, and spiritual leader of the Shas movement, renowned for his extensive legal writings and influential religious rulings.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chief Rabbi
Sephardi Jew
author
human
posek
rabbi
awardReceived EMET Prize (Torah and Talmud)
Israel Prize
Israel Prize
surface form: Israel Prize for Torah literature
birthCountry Iraq
birthDate 1920-09-24
birthPlace Baghdad
burialPlace Givat Shaul Cemetery
surface form: Har HaMenuchot cemetery, Jerusalem
countryOfCitizenship Israel
dateAwarded Israel Prize
surface form: Israel Prize for Torah literature: 1970
deathDate 2013-10-07
educatedAt Porat Yosef Yeshiva
endTime as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv–Yafo: 1973
as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel: 1983
ethnicGroup Mizrahi Jews
Sephardi Jews
familyName Yosef
fieldOfWork Halakha
Jewish law
Sephardic halakhic tradition
givenName Ovadia
influenced Sephardic rabbinic establishment in Israel
Shas
surface form: Shas political leadership
influencedBy Ben-Zion Abba Shaul
Ben Ish Chai (Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad)
surface form: Yosef Chaim of Baghdad
knownFor extensive responsa literature
halakhic rulings regarding Ba'alei Teshuva
halakhic rulings regarding Ethiopian Jews
influential rulings on agunot after the Yom Kippur War
lenient halakhic rulings within traditional framework
restoring prestige of Sephardic Jewry
languageOfWorkOrName Aramaic
Hebrew
movement Shas
name Rabbi Ovadia Yosef self-link
surface form: Ovadia Yosef
notableWork Halichot Olam
Yabia Omer
Yechaveh Da'at
numberOfChildren 11
positionHeld Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv–Yafo
Rishon LeZion
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel
religion Judaism
residence Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
role spiritual leader of Shas
spouse Margalit Fattal Yosef
startTime as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv–Yafo: 1968
as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel: 1973

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Acharonim hasPart Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Shas founder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
this entity surface form: Ovadia Yosef
Shas spiritualLeader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
this entity surface form: Ovadia Yosef
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel officeHoldersInclude Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
this entity surface form: Ovadia Yosef
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef name Rabbi Ovadia Yosef self-link
subject surface form: Ovadia Yosef
this entity surface form: Ovadia Yosef