Yitzhak Yosef
In Photos: Israel's political leaders cast their ballots in 26th Knesset election
Israel's leading politicians cast their votes for the 26th Knesset at polling stations around the country.
Former Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef denounces Ben-Gvir as election battle intensifies
MQG demands gov't open criminal probe into Shas spiritual leader after attack on attorney-general
Why Gadi Eisenkot is rejecting the haredi political embrace that once helped Netanyahu win
Chief rabbi patronizes women studying halacha, says Reform Judaism is fake
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef casts aspersions on ability of women to learn advanced Jewish law, accuses women seeking state accreditation for Torah studies of ‘imitating Reform Judaism’
150 rabbis commemorate 75th anniversary of Jewish liberation from Nazis
Chief Rabbis and senior officials from around the Jewish world paid tribute to the allied forces who liberated Jews in Europe, and to Jewish soldiers who fell in World War II
Half a million people take part in mass online prayer against coronavirus
Chief Rabbi of Safed Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: coronavirus pandemic shows that however important world economy is, it cannot trample other values
Chief Rabbi: Leave phones on during Shabbat
Yosef also ruled that all synagogues at hospitals should be closed since it is hard for people to keep a distance of two meters (6.6 feet) while in them.
Despite coronavirus, chief rabbi permits prayer services of 15 people
The chief rabbi wrote in his ruling that the public should strictly adhere to the instructions of the health authorities
Know Comment: What’s Yitzhak Yosef’s strategy?
One must wonder what Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was thinking when last week he launched into a tirade against non-Jewish Russian immigrants to Israel.
Tzohar rabbis: Happy, halachic, and in love with the Jewish people
The media are wrong: Politics isn’t always the answer – leadership is.
‘Change Law of Return,’ says chief rabbi following FSU ‘non-Jews’ comments
The chief rabbi went on to defend himself, insisting that he had already said but would repeat that the majority of immigrants from the former Soviet Union were Jewish
Chief Rabbi Yosef calls on public not to use judicial courts
His comments generated strong criticism from liberal groups, including the Hiddush religious pluralism organization, which called for the position of chief rabbi to be abolished.
Chief Rabbi blasts world religious leaders for not condemning terrorism
“It is forbidden for us to be silent, silence is tantamount to identifying with terror.”