Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party has wished death for all Palestinians, including acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas. Rabbi Ovadia...

According to the Maariv newspaper website, representatives of the Shas Party delivered a message from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (the party's spiritual leader) to Israeli President, Shimon Peres, warning him...

Two ultra-Orthodox groups in Israel have said that they will join forces to strengthen their claim to join a coalition government formed by Benjamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister's Likud-Yisrael...

Washington has criticized Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef over remarks that Palestinians should perish from this world. "We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,"...

Why America will come to regret the craven deal Obama is offering Netanyahu. By Christopher Hitchens Those of us who keep an eye on the parties of God are...

By Omar Radwan Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Spiritual Leader of Shas, an Israeli Sephardic ultra-Orthodox party, delivered a sermon at the weekend in which he prayed for the death...

By Omar Radwan Vitriolic racism and hatred has become the Israeli normIsrael appears to be awash with Jewish hate preachers. In the past, rabbis who issued racist edicts or...