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Ovadia Yosef

Featured / Health and Medicine

First Responders Give Elderly Man New Lease on Life in Traumatic Respiratory Distress Call

By Jewish Press News Desk

After multiple rounds of chest compressions, the paramedic asked Yosef to call for backup.

Headline / Jewish / The Courts / Religious & Secular in Israel

Israeli Religious Court Declares Woman Conceived From Sperm Bank Eligible for Marriage

By Jewish Press News Desk

Since the identity of the father is unknown, it could have imposed severe restrictions on whom the woman would be allowed to marry.

Featured / Politics / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

Netanyahu Plans Lowering Vote Threshold to Bolster Rightwing Parties, Rightwing Parties Enraged

By JNi.Media

Lowering the threshold would thus could give the rightwing block as many as 70 seats in the next Knesset—it now hovers around 65, and clip one or two Arab seats that would travel back to the Zionist leftwing parties.

Featured / Haredim & Hassidim / Business and Economy / Religious & Secular in Israel

Rav Ovadia Yosef's Mythical Chair Auctioned, Asking Price $57,000

By JNi.Media

"It has gone through chuppas, bris millahs, public conferences and various other events, during which people who needed medicine, spouses, blessings and salvation sat on it."

Headline / Terrorism / Jewish / Politics / Police and Crime / Islamists / The Temple Mount / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judea & Samaria / Religion / Settlements / Israeli Arabs

Chief Rabbi: 'An Arab who Came to Kill Jews Must Not Come Out Alive'

By JNi.Media

The Chief Rabbi was very critical of the fact that the terrorist attacker had not been eliminated at the scene of the crime.

Jewish / Police and Crime / News Briefs

Aryeh Deri Slams Conviction of Shas-Linked Rabbi Avraham Yosef

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Rabbi Avraham Yosef was convicted of violating the public trust for allegedly using his position as chief rabbi of Holon to further the interests of a family-run kosher certification organization.

Interviews and Profiles

Thirty-Six Little-Known Admirers of Rabbi Meir Kahane

By Rabbi Shlomo Moriah

In honor of Rabbi Kahane’s 26th yartzheit, let the truth be told.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Judea & Samaria

Minister Ariel: Liberman's 2-State Statement Nothing More than 'Verbal Maneuvering'

By JNi.Media

"Last year MK Yoel Hasson (Zionist Camp) tried to pass the Arab initiative in the Knesset and the Likud rejected it."

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel

Radio Host: Rav Ovadia's Daughter Resembles Stabber Schlissel

By JNi.Media

"How can you live with the fact that Yishai Schlissel looks more like you than he does me?"

Politics / Government / Elections / News Briefs / The Knesset

Bennett Likely to Get Foreign Ministry

By Jewish Press News Desk

Bennett is likely to be the next Foreign Minister, and the fight is now over the Ministry of Religion.

Politics / Elections / News Briefs / Israel Elections 5775

Understand Israeli Elections - Here's a Primer, Part 1

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.

Israel / News Briefs

Shas Party Appoints New Spiritual Leader

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Shas political party, founded and run by the late Rav Ovadia Yosef, has a appointed a new spiritual leader, according to a Galei Tzahal report. The rabbi chosen to replace Harav Ovadia and be the new president of the party's Council of Torah Sages is Rabbi Shalom Cohen. Aryeh Deri is the political leader […]

Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Jerusalem

Eli Yishai to Not Run for Jerusalem Mayor

By Jewish Press News Desk

MK Eli Yishai, the former head of the Shas party has decided he will not be running for mayor of Jerusalem, according to a report in the Israeli, Chareidi La'Daat website. Yishai was the political head of the Shas party until Shas's spiritual leader, Rav Ovadia Yosef, kicked him out and replaced him with Aryeh […]

The Muqata

Shas's Attacks on the Jewish Home and Religious Equality

By Jameel@Muqata

Torah will probably flourish more with Shas out of the government and hopefully the Chief Rabbinate will revert back to a Rabbinate for all of Israel.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

Shas Spiritual Leader Yosef: Jewish Home is for 'Goyim'

By Malkah Fleisher

Shas party spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef is urging Israelis not to vote for the party headed by Naftali Bennett, the Bayit HaYehudi Jewish Home party, calling it not a home for Jews but a home for gentiles.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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